The International Society for Children's Health and the Environment Commits to Reduce Its Carbon Footprint to Safeguard Children's Health

The Lancet Countdown and the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared that the worst impacts of climate change are and will continue to be felt disproportionately by children. Children are uniquely vulnerable to the consequences of climate change, including heat stress, food scarcity,...

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Published in:Environmental health perspectives 2020-01, Vol.128 (1), p.14501
Main Authors: Eskenazi, Brenda, Etzel, Ruth A, Sripada, Kam, Cairns, Maryann R, Hertz-Picciotto, Irva, Kordas, Katarzyna, Machado Torres, João Paulo, Mielke, Howard W, Oulhote, Youssef, Quirós-Alcalá, Lesliam, Suárez-López, José R, Zlatnik, Marya G
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air pollution
Air pollution control
Air travel
Associations
Book publishing
Brief Communication
California
Carbon footprint
Carbon offsets
Child health
Children
Childrens health
Climate change
Complications
Diseases
Ecological footprint
Emissions
Environmental impact
Family
Food shortages
Fossil fuels
Global temperature changes
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases
Heat stress
Heat tolerance
Infectious diseases
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Low income groups
Meetings
Mental health
Natural disasters
New York
Pollution
Post traumatic stress disorder
Society
Transportation industry
Trauma
Trends
United Kingdom
Vector-borne diseases
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Summary:The Lancet Countdown and the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared that the worst impacts of climate change are and will continue to be felt disproportionately by children. Children are uniquely vulnerable to the consequences of climate change, including heat stress, food scarcity, increases in pollution and vector-borne diseases, lost family income, displacement, and the trauma of living through a climate-related disaster. These stressors can result in long-lasting physical and mental health sequelae. Based upon these concerns associated with climate change, the International Society for Children's Health and the Environment developed a statement about ways in which the Society could take action to reduce its contribution of greenhouse gas emissions. The objective of this article is to report our Society's plans in hopes that we may stimulate other scientific societies to take action. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP6578.
ISSN:0091-6765
1552-9924
DOI:10.1289/EHP6578