17 Sep 2024 --- Climate change is set to cause stunting in 40 million children and wasting in 28 million children by 2050, according to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s latest Goalkeepers report. The foundation stresses that the climate crisis of childhood malnutrition requires “immediate global action” and calls on world leaders to increase health spending in vulnerable regions. It also notes that many of the tools needed to address the crisis already exist.
