{"id":133117,"date":"2024-08-19T07:58:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T04:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/half-a-billion-children-suffer-double-the-number-of-extreme-heat-days-their-grandparents-did\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T07:58:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T04:58:54","slug":"half-a-billion-children-suffer-double-the-number-of-extreme-heat-days-their-grandparents-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/half-a-billion-children-suffer-double-the-number-of-extreme-heat-days-their-grandparents-did\/","title":{"rendered":"Half a billion children suffer double the number of extreme heat days their grandparents did"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133117\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nUnited Nations analysis reveals that millions of children across the globe are at risk of heat-related issues, in part thanks to climate change. As the world continues to heat up, close to half a billion children globally are living in regions that experience at least twice as many extremely hot days as their grandparents did. That\u2019s according to new research by the United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF). The findings highlight the rapid escalation of extreme heat events, laying bare the fact that one in five children &#8211; that\u2019s around 466 million &#8211; are exposed to these often dangerous conditions every year.<\/p>\n<p>UNICEF compared data from the 1960s with the average temperatures from 2020-2024. In the process, they discovered a dramatic increase in the number of extremely hot days &#8211; defined as those exceeding 35 degrees Celsius. The trend poses a serious threat for many, particularly children and other vulnerable groups who live in areas lacking the necessary infrastructure or services to cope with such extreme temperatures. \u201cWhat used to be the hottest summer days are now the norm,\u201d Catherine Russell, UNICEF\u2019s Executive Director, told AfricaNews. \u201cThis surge in extreme heat is disrupting children\u2019s health, well-being, and daily lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UNICEF\u2019s analysis shows that in 16 nations, children now endure over a month of additional extremely hot days every year compared to 60 years ago. In South Sudan, the average number of extremely hot days rose from 110 in the 1960s to 165 today. In Paraguay, that number has nearly doubled from 36 to 71. It\u2019s children living in West and Central Africa who face the highest exposure to these dangerously hot days &#8211; and they\u2019re increasing all the time. In that region alone, the analysis shows that some 123 million children &#8211; 39 per cent &#8211; are suffering through extreme temperatures for more than a third of each year.<\/p>\n<p>Countries including Senegal, Niger, Mali and Sudan are particularly affected &#8211; with children there forced to endure an average of at least 195 extremely hot days annually. A further 48 million children living in Latin America and the Caribbean are currently residing in areas where the number of extremely hot days has doubled.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/08\/16\/half-a-billion-children-suffer-double-the-number-of-extreme-heat-days-their-grandparents-d\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/08\/16\/half-a-billion-children-suffer-double-the-number-of-extreme-heat-days-their-grandparents-d\">Euronews Green<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/half-a-billion-children-suffer-double-the-number-of-extreme-heat-days-their-grandparents-did\/\">Half a billion children suffer double the number of extreme heat days their grandparents did<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1300,575,2459,15742],"class_list":["post-133117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-children","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-heat","tag-suffer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}