Tag: children

Opinion: In the worst April heatwave in history, South Asia must demand these urgent climate actions

The heatwave sweeping across Asia has forced schools in India to shut down. With our children already paying a terrible price for climate change, we must act to protect their future, urges an IPCC scientist.

Sofie’s World: Raising a child during the climate crisis and growing up in the age of the Anthropocene 

My daughter Sofie was born in April 2021, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic and in a decade in which climate change is increasingly high on the global agenda. Sofie’s World is a series of articles in which I reflect on parenthood in the context of the climate crisis and what it might be like for her growing up in the era of the Anthropocene.