Children born during last year will on average endure seven times more extreme heatwaves and more than twice as many droughts as their grandparents, a global study has said.
They will also live through almost three times as many river floods and crop failures and twice the number of wildfires as people born 60 years ago.
The global averages mask much higher increases in exposure in some countries. Children in Afghanistan face up to 18 times as many heatwaves as their elders and children in Mali face up to ten times as many crop failures.
The authors, from Imperial College London, the University of Nottingham and other institutions, said that the results showed the injustice facing newborns, who had not contributed to greenhouse gases but
