Educating Indian Children About The Impact of Climate Change on Health

Abstract

There is increasing agreement that greenhouse gas emissions generated by human activity are responsible for global climate change (International Panel on Climate Change, 2007). There has been an observed 0.5°C rise in average global temperatures since the mid-1970s, a change that the international panel attributes partly to these anthropogenic emissions. It is also believed that these changes will have, in many parts of the world, adverse health effects ranging from heat-stroke and injury from extreme weather events to hunger and infectious diseases.