https://www.scmp.com/rss/513318/feed Daniel Kass is the senior vice-president (Environmental, Climate, and Urban Health) at Vital Strategies, where he leads a team working on using the tools of public health to address environmental threats and ensure healthy and sustainable outcomes for people living in an increasingly urbanised world. Kass is an expert on environmental health and environmental disease prevention, with 35 years of experience in enforcement, education, policy, and research programmes at Hunter College, as the head... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Children are the least responsible for climate change and environmental degradation, yet they will bear the greatest brunt of it. One in four deaths of children under five – or 1.7 million deaths a year – can be attributed to environmental hazards. This figure is expected to rise as climate change magnifies the world’s most serious environmental risks. But as countries seek to mitigate environmental risks, they first need data to help drive the political and popular will to take action. Even... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3188385/protect-children-climate-change-measure-environmental-health-risks?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3188385/protect-children-climate-change-measure-environmental-health-risks?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Aug 2022 08:30:12 +0000