[ngoclimatechange] Launch of Save the Children's New Climate Report – Born into the Climate Crisis 2

[Dang, Nguyenhai]

Dear our colleagues,

As we approach the ten-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement, I am writing to draw your attention to the critical findings of Save the Children’s latest report, "Born into the Climate Crisis 2: An Unprecedented Life: Protecting Children's Rights in a Changing Climate,"<https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/born-into-the-climate-crisis-2-an-unprecedented-life-protecting-childrens-rights/>  or this link here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GiwWfQYVnG9juQH7WLcPHPVza-c9LeZW/view?usp=sharing  developed in collaboration with climate scientists from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). This report underscores the urgent need for decisive climate action to limit global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century, alongside child-responsive climate finance, locally led and child-centred adaptation and child-focused approaches to loss and damage.

The findings are stark: Compared to the 2.7 °C global warming we are headed for based on current policy pledges, achieving the Paris Agreement target of limiting warming to 1.5 °C  could spare around 58 million children born in 2020 from experiencing unprecedented lifetime exposure to the following six climate extremes: 38 million children for heatwaves, 8 million children for crop failures, 5 million children for river floods, 5 million children for tropical cyclones, 2 million children for droughts and 1.5 million children for wildfires. “Unprecedented” is defined as an exposure to climate extremes that someone would have less than a 1 in 10,000 chance of experiencing during their life in a world without human-induced climate change.
In contrast, if global temperatures rise by 3.5°C by 2100, 92% of children born in 2020—111 million children—will face unprecedented heatwave exposure over their lifetime, with dire consequences for their rights to health, education, and survival.

The report also highlights the profound impact of climate change on children, particularly those in lower- and middle-income countries who are already facing heightened risks from waterborne diseases, hunger, and malnutrition. Extreme weather events are increasingly forcing children from their homes, disrupting their education, and exacerbating inequalities.
The window to act is rapidly closing, and it is imperative that leaders step up to protect children from the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. Save the Children urges governments to:

  *   Take ambitious and urgent action now to limit warming to a maximum of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, including by rapidly and equitably phasing out the use, subsidy and financing of fossil fuels, with high-income and historically high-emitting countries leading the way.
  *   Urgently close the adaptation gap and provide loss and damage funding through the provision of new and additional climate finance, prioritising children and child-critical social services such as health and nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), education, child protection, and social protection, with a particular focus on reaching children most at risk. Climate finance should be delivered primarily in the form of grants and highly concessional finance, particularly for adaptation and loss and damage.
  *   Children, their rights, voices and unique needs and vulnerabilities must be centred in international climate plans and agreements, including the upcoming submission of new Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC 3.0), recognising children as equal stakeholders and key agents of change in addressing the climate and environmental crisis.

Thank you for your attention to this urgent matter. We welcome your leadership and commitment to safeguarding the rights of children today and in the future.
Kind regards,
Dang

Best regards,
Nguyen Hai Dang (Mr.) |Climate Resilience Technical Advisor | Save the Children | Vietnam Country Office | 9th floor, VIETBANK Building, 70 – 72 Ba Trieu, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
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