Monitoring climate change and child health: The case for putting children in all policies
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Climate change is threatening the health of current and future generations of children. The most recent evidence from the Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change finds declining trends in yield potential of major crops, rising heatwave exposures, and increasing climate suitability for the transmission of infectious diseases, putting at risk the health and wellbeing of children around the world. However, if children are considered at the core of planning and implementation, the policy responses to climate change could yield enormous benefits for the health and wellbeing of children throughout their lives. Child health professionals have a role to play in ensuring this, with the beneficiaries of their involvement ranging from the individual child to the global community. The newly established Children in All Policies 2030 initiative will work with the Lancet Countdown to provide the evidence on the climate change responses necessary to protect and promote the health of children.
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Under WHO's ATACH, 74 countries committed to developing health systems with net zero emissions or sustainable, low greenhouse gas emissions, and 151 countries signed the UAE Declaration on Climate and Health.
“Under WHO’s ATACH, 74 countries committed to developing health systems with net zero emissions or sustainable, low greenhouse gas emissions,180 and 151 countries signed the UAE Declaration on Climate and Health,15 committing to promoting steps to curb emissions in the health sector.”
From The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action (2024) · cites this paper as [15]
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThis growing awareness was reflected in the unprecedented focus on health at COP28 in December, 2023, which included a health and climate thematic day and the first health and climate ministerial meeting.
“This growing awareness was reflected in the unprecedented focus on health at COP28 in December, 2023, which included a health and climate thematic day and the first health and climate ministerial meeting; moreover, 151 countries have now endorsed the COP28 health and climate declaration.15,364,365”
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The Conclusion discusses a child-health and climate initiative launched in April 2021, and the ‘role of child health professionals’ section discusses climate-health advocacy. Searches for COP28, the December 2023 thematic day, and the first health and climate ministerial meeting found no passage addressing those events. The paper does not verify the attributed COP28 claim. (LLM, conf=0.78)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measured151 countries have now endorsed the COP28 health and climate declaration.
“moreover, 151 countries have now endorsed the COP28 health and climate declaration.15,364,365”
From The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action (2024) · cites this paper as [15]
The Way Forward discusses a March 2021 declaration by a paediatric society, and the Conclusion discusses climate policy, but neither addresses COP28 or country endorsements (page numbers unavailable). Searches for COP28, the health and climate declaration, and 151 countries found no supporting passage in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.78)
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“20,21 • Integrating health in all climate change policies at the international, national, and local levels, through cross-sectoral cooperation, as a key to ensure climate change actions, can protect and promote people’s health and survival.”
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- Authors
- Romanello, M., McGushin, A., MacGuire, F. A. S., Sly, P. D., Jennings, B., Requejo, J., & Costello, A.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- United Nations Children's Fund (US)
- Corresponding author
- Romanello, Marina
- ORCID
- Venue
- Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2021-11
- Volume
- 57
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1736-1740
- ISSN
- 1034-4810 (ISSN-L)
- 1440-1754
- PMC
- PMC8751624
- OpenAlex
- W3214504732
- Cited by
- 25
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4
- FWCI
- 1.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Deakin Research Online (Deakin University) (submittedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Child and Adolescent Health
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Keywords
- climate change, child health, health equity, climate policy, Lancet Countdown, heat waves, infectious disease transmission, crop yield decline, child health professionals, child well-being
- MeSH terms
- Child Health, Child, Humans, Climate Change, Policy
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