Children’s Unique Vulnerability to Climate Change

This is part 1 of a 3-part series about The Health Impacts of Climate Change Across Our Lifespan​ co-hosted by the UC Center for Climate, Health and Equity and the UCSF Academic Senate Committee on Sustainability​.

According to the 2019 Lancet Countdown, we are now living in a world in which every stage of a person’s life will be shaped by changing climate conditions. Learn about how climate change affects health across the lifespan – from birth through childhood into adulthood and older age – and about its cumulative health toll over time.