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(4). We are looking at a large number of children among the highly
affected. And drowning was found to be the principal cause of
these deaths.
National outcomes in their future livelihoods…Modelling suggests
that an estimated additional seventy thousand (70,000) Filipino
children will be malnourished by 2050 due to the impact of climate
change, representing an increase of four percent (4%)…
Now if we look at disease and the right to health, children are
also highly susceptible to many infectious waterborne diseases that
become more prevalent in the context of droughts, floods, and
extreme weather, particularly when damage to essential water and
sanitation infrastructure occurs. Diarrheal diseases are another
major cause of mortality for children, responsible for over half
a million deaths of children under five (5) in 2015, the fourth
leading cause of death under five (5)-year-olds in the Philippines.
Rising temperatures also increase the incidence of vector-borne
diseases, such as malaria and dengue fever. The global burden of
these diseases is already heavily concentrated on children. Seventy
percent (70%) of all deaths from malaria in 2015 occurred in
children under the age of five (5). The World Health Organization
projects that climate change will cause an additional 60,000 deaths
from malaria among children under the age of fifteen (15) by
2030. In the Philippines, malaria is already endemic in certain
province [sic], but WHO projects over one hundred fifty (150)
million people will be at risk of malaria by 2017, under both high
and low emission scenarios.
Climate change can exacerbate air pollution. It does not cause air
pollution, but it can exacerbate the toxicity of certain pollutants,
including ozone, and it increases the frequency of wildfires and
drought. Air pollution causes approximately six hundred thousand
(600,000) deaths of children under five (5) every year. Many more
suffer from disease and disability with lifelong consequences and
children, again, are more susceptible to air pollution than adults for
many reasons. They have smaller airways, they have a developing
immune system, and these are easily overwhelmed by infections.
They breathe more quickly than adults and they take more air per
unit of body weight as well. Acute respiratory infection has been
identified as one of the top three (3) causes of mortality in children
under five (5) in the Philippines.
The final impact is on the right to education. Climate change has
been recognized as an emerging and persistent barrier to the right
to education in the Philippines. Impacts include destruction of
school infrastructure, loss of nutrition, which means that children
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