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Programmes ERCA new study has found that children born today are likely to experience significantly more exposure to extreme climate events over their lifetime than previous generations - unless global greenhouse gas emissions are substantially reduced.
Using climate model projections and global demographic data, the researchers assessed exposure to six types of climate extremes: heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, crop failures, river floods, and tropical cyclones across three warming scenarios: 1.5°C, 2.7°C, and 3.5°C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century.
The research was conducted by an international team from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Environment and Climate Change Canada, KU Leuven, the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (RMI), and ETH Zurich. The funding which among others contributed to the study comes from the ERC Consolidator Grant LAgrangian Climate Risk and Impact Attribution LACRIMA, led by Principal Investigator Wim Thiery (VUB).
More information about the study and its findings can be found in this ERC news article and this article published in Nature and this report published by Save the Children.
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