'What we are doing to reduce global poverty is being eroded by our lack of action on climate.'
Julia ConleyThe failure by global policymakers to act decisively to address the climate emergency threatens to erase decades of progress in the fight against childhood malnutrition in the Global South, according to a new study by researchers at Cornell University.
Sylvia Blom, who earned a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2021 and led the study published earlier this month in thelast week that"as the number of hot days increases, we find that the prevalence of child malnutrition increases to a pretty high degree." The study examined the effects of extreme heat on more than 32,000 children ages 3 months to 3 years old, finding that the average level of extreme heat exposure increased the prevalence of stunted growth from chronic malnutrition by 12%.The research comes as climate experts arethat global policymakers are not doing enough to limit planetary heating to 1.5°C.
"We're talking about children at a very young age that will have changes for the rest of their lives, so this is permanently scarring their potential," said Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, an associate professor and applied economist at Cornell."What we are doing to reduce global poverty is being eroded by our lack of action on climate."
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