Green Daily

This is a seriously sad news story. A recent report from UNICEF said that millions of the world's poorest children are the most vulnerable victims of climate change, caused by the rich, developed world.

UNICEF director, David Bull said, "It is clear that a failure to address climate change is a failure to protect children. Those who have contributed least to climate change -- the world's poorest children -- are suffering the most."

Economic damage due to climate change could force parents to take children out of school to help them fetch water and fuel. Climate change will also expand the impact of malaria. According to the report, it will be the "young and the poor that will suffer the earliest and the hardest.

Developing nations say there is no reason they should sign onto carbon emission curbs and keep their people in poverty when this problem has been caused by rich, developed countries.