Climate change can have detrimental effects on child health and wellbeing. Despite the
imperative for a fuller understanding of how climate change affects child health and …

Climate change is affecting and will increasingly influence human health and wellbeing.
Children are particularly vulnerable to the impact of climate change. An extensive literature …

This Technical Report was revised. See https://doi. org/10.1542/peds. 2023-065505. Rising
global temperature is causing major physical, chemical, and ecological changes across the …

There is a broad scientific consensus that the global climate is warming, the process is
accelerating, and that human activities are very likely (> 90% probability) the main cause …

This Policy Statement was revised. See https://doi. org/10.1542/peds. 2023-065504. There is
broad scientific consensus that Earth's climate is warming rapidly and at an accelerating …

Background Global climate change will have multiple effects on human health. Vulnerable
populations—children, the elderly, and the poor—will be disproportionately affected …

Our climate has significantly changed, exceeding what the world has experienced over the
last 650,000 years, and has been cited as the most significant health threat of the twenty-first …

Human activity has contributed to climate change. The relationship between climate and
child health has not been well investigated. This review discusses the role of climate change …

Climate change threatens to reverse the gains in global child health and the reductions in
global child mortality made over the past 25 years. There is broad recognition that …

Effects of climate change on health will affect most populations in the next decades and put
the lives and wellbeing of billions of people at increased risk. During this century, earth's …