Children and Climate Initiative

2025 Report Visual Summary - Lancet Countdown

The 2025 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change report, supported by our partners at the Wellcome Trust, was released yesterday and it confirms the relationship between our changing climate and the health of individuals and communities, dive into it here:

lancetcountdown.org/2025-report-...

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Even with a 1.5°C warming limit, more than half of children born in 2020 will face unprecedented heatwaves in their lifetimes. If the world warms by 3.5°C, that figure could be over 90%.

We are working with front line communities to understand their needs and building policies to empower them.

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Children and Climate Initiative This project aims to address the gap in research and policy regarding the effects of climate change on early childhood health and development, especially in the world's poorest countries.

🔗 Follow this page to stay updated with our research, and visit our website to explore our work in more detail:

www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/chi...

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2/2 We are combining cutting edge climate data with early childhood health and development data to develop an early warning system about where and how children will be impacted by climate. This will then be translate into policy proposals to help governments adapt to our changing climate.

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1/2 📚 In 2024, 242 million students (one in seven worldwide) experienced school disruptions due to extreme climate events.

🌍 There is an urgent need to build our knowledge about how climate change is impacting early childhood development.

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2025 Professor Cesar VICTORA - From Local Insights to Global Impact: Four Decades of Child Health and Nutrition Epidemiology in Pelotas, Brazil - The John Snow Society

Professor Cesar Victora, one of our consortium, delivered this year’s Pumphandle Lecture at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine — one of public health’s most prestigious honours.

🎥 Watch his lecture here to learn about Cesar's research: johnsnowsociety.org/2025/10/10/2...

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🌍 Nearly 1 billion children live in countries at high risk from the impacts of climate change but we have very little evidence to link this to their health and development. The Children and Climate Initiative will address this gap.

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