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Report: Children at Risk From Climate Change, Commercial Marketing

Lisa Schlein

   GENEVA - Child and adolescent health experts around the world warn
   children's health and future are endangered by climate change and
   harmful commercial marketing practices. Forty independent experts
   participated in a landmark report commissioned by the World Health
   Organization, U.N. Children's Fund and the British medical journal,
   [1]The Lancet.

   A bleak report says no country is doing enough to protect children's
   health from climate change, environmental degradation and exploitative
   commercial marketing tactics that are leading to a global epidemic of
   child obesity.

   Scientists forecast the world will warm by more than 1.5 degrees
   Celsius in 10 years. The authors of the report warn children already
   are suffering from the emission of greenhouse gases, which is causing
   global warming.

References

   1. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30364-0/fulltext

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