(AGENPARL) – mer 18 settembre 2024 Issued: Sep 18, 2024 (10:44am EDT)
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EPA Announces New Kids and Climate Health Zone with Stories and Tips to
Protect Children in a Changing Climate
WASHINGTON – Today, September 18, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency is releasing a new tool called the “Kids and Climate Health Zone.”
This Zone is a collection of stories and information about how the hazards of
climate stressors are impacting different childhood life stages and regions in
the United States and what people can do to protect their children and
families. The tool uses the best available scientific information from the
U.S. Global Change Research Program’s Fifth National Climate Assessment and
other published resources. 
“Climate change is the challenge of our generation, and we owe it to the
next generation – our nation’s children – to take action now in the
fight to protect our health and our planet,” said EPA Deputy Administrator
Janet McCabe. “Raising awareness of the impacts of climate and environmental
stressors on children and highlighting actions that we can all implement to
mitigate the effects are critical for the protection of children’s health
and are central to our mission at EPA and to the efforts of the Biden-Harris
Administration.”  
Children are uniquely vulnerable to climate change due to a variety of
physical, cognitive, behavioral and social factors. Climate change-related
impacts in childhood can have lifelong consequences due to its effects on
learning, physical health, chronic disease and other conditions. Changing
climate conditions, public health emergencies, and disasters can compound and
affect children’s environmental health and safety.  
It’s important for kids, their parents and caregivers and the adults around
them to be aware of these consequential impacts and get ideas on how to
mitigate them before children’s environmental health gets negatively
impacted. 
Check out the Zone to find information on how climate change can affect
different climate stressors and life stages, and read stories about: 
A toddler who is struggling with stress after his home is flooded and the
steps that can be taken to mitigate the risks associated with flooding. 
A teenager who is dealing with extreme heat during practice and what the
teenager can do to stay healthy. 
A pregnant woman who is exposed to wildfire smoke in her area and what
resources she can use to keep herself and her baby safe. 
View all these stories and more at the Kids and Climate Zone. 
Learn more about EPA climate adaptation efforts.
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