Climate change make kids vulnerableby | 24-01-2017 16:16 |
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23.jpg) climate change and environmental degradation undermine child rights, especially of the most disadvantaged children, says a new UNICEF report. the report titled ' Learning to live in Changing climate' reveals the vulnerability of Bangladesh due to flooding, cyclones and river erosion and how climate change is aggravating the situation rapidly. It showed that between 2008 and 2014 around 4.7 million people were displaced while 70 percent of Dhaka's slum dwellers are environmental migrants. Some 85 percent of disease from climate change affects children while various other diseases are on the rise owing to climate change, says the report.
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