CHILDREN growing up in the Middle East are increasingly affected by climate change, and are exposed to heatwaves, dust storms, droughts, and floods, a new report from World Vision says.
Children in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, and the West Bank are exposed to higher temperatures, and have less access to water and food, the report, Growing Up in the Climate Crisis, published last week, says. Researchers spoke to children, in a region that is already experiencing a scarcity of water and rising temperatures. Thirty-nine per cent of the children in this area who had had to leave their home had done so because of climate change rather than conflict, the researchers said.