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Tuesday 24 Nov 2015 - 17:08 Makkah mean time-12-2-1437
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New York, (IINA) - UNICEF stated on Tuesday that more than 500 million children living in flood-prone areas and 160 million children in drought zones will bear the brunt of climate change if leaders fail to agree on a climate deal at the upcoming summit in Paris, DPA reported.
The report comes ahead of the UN climate-change conference in Paris, where world leaders are expected to agree on a plan to limit global temperature increases to 2 degrees Celsius.
UNICEF warned that climate change, which can cause increasingly severe weather conditions, could strongly affect 530 million children living in flood-prone regions and 160 million children in drought-zones.
Millions of these children live in poverty-stricken countries, which could amplify the impact of climate change by making them more vulnerable to the devastation of severe weather patterns and disease outbreaks, which often follow natural disasters.
"Today's children are the least responsible for climate change, but they and their children are the ones who will live with its consequences", UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said.
It is noteworthy that the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) released a report that says, 90 percent of the thousands of disasters that nations have suffered over the last two decades have been weather-related. It also uncovered that about 35 percent of all major disasters are included in economic losses data, and that the official figure for disaster costs over the last 20 years is $1.891 trillion. However, experts estimate that the real figure is much larger, saying that it is between $250 and $350 billion per year.
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