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Women, children, and adolescents in low-income and middle-income countries are some of the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and they're going to bear the worst of it, even if they don't contribute as much to global greenhouse gas emissions as other people, according to a new study.
The study, published in the British Medical Journal, argues that women's, children's, and adolescents' healthor WCAHis "currently not mainstreamed in climate policies and financing," and that it needs to be better funded, especially in countries that have the least greenhouse gas emissions, the New York Times reports.
The study found that the effects of climate change are expected to worsen the health of women, children, and adolescents in low-income and middle-income countries, as well as increase their risk of displacement and migration.
The study's lead author, Blanca Anton of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, tells the Times that climate change is already having an impact on the health of women, children, and adolescents in low-income and middle-income countries, and that it's going to get worse.
Anton says that in countries that have the least greenhouse gas emissions, women, children, and adolescents Read the Entire Article
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