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Climate Crises Drove 27 Mn Children Into Hunger In 2022: Charity By AFP News 11/28/23 AT 8:37 PM EST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard Share on Pocket Save the Children said half of those displaced by devasting flooding in Somalia are children AFP Extreme weather events in countries vulnerable to climate change drove more than 27 million children into hunger last year, Save the Children said on Tuesday. The figure represented a sharp 135 percent increase over 2021, the UK-based charity said in an analysis ahead of the COP28 climate summit opening in Dubai on Thursday. It said children made up nearly half the 57 million people pushed into crisis levels of acute food insecurity or worse across 12 countries because of extreme weather in 2022, according to data from the IPC hunger monitoring system.
Understanding the Increased Hunger
Out of the 12 countries, the Horn of Africa was most affected by dramatic hikes in children’s levels of hunger, with Ethiopia and Somalia accounting for almost half of the 27 million children impacted. “As climate-related weather events become more frequent and severe, the consequences for children’s lives will become even more drastic,” highlighted Inger Ashing, CEO of Save the Children.
In the face of the growing crisis, Save the Children is calling on world leaders meeting at the upcoming COP 28 climate summit in the United Arab Emirates to recognize children as “key agents of change”. The charity also urged the action on the climate crisis and sought to address other issues leading to hunger, including armed conflict and inadequate health care systems.
The situation in Somalia is particularly concerning, with the country deemed one of the most vulnerable to climate-related issues, fraught in a vicious circle of droughts and floods. As such, about 650,000 disrupted lives – half of which being children – were displaced by devastating flooding this year.
Moreover, in Pakistan two million children remain severely malnourished following the drowning of a third of the country’s territory in floods in 2022. Globally, Save the Children records a startlingly huge proportion of children at risk due to both poverty and the climate crisis – 774 million children, or one-third of the global population.
In a recent report published by the charity, approximately 17.6 million infants born in 2023 are projected to face no other prospect than hunger. The figure is a stark 20% higher than ten years ago.
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