<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1082671" class="has-thumb" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 136, 204); transition: 0.1s linear; text-decoration: none; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; min-height: 125px; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><header style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-right: 110px;"><div class="press-release-card__meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; align-items: center;"><div class="reltime" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 2px;">7-May-2025</div><div class="press-release__multimedia-icons" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 10px;"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-picture" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; top: 1px; display: inline-block; font-family: "Glyphicons Halflings"; line-height: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"></span></div></div><h2 class="post_title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 14px;">Will you live an unprecedented life?</h2><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 10px; margin: 2px 0px 0px; color: rgb(144, 144, 144); transition: 0.2s ease-in-out;">VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="category" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(144, 144, 144); text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 10px; margin: 2px 0px 0px; transition: 0.2s ease-in-out;">PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATION</span></header><div class="entry hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 110px;"><div class="intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(185, 186, 188); padding-left: 10px; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Research led by climate scientists from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) reveals that millions of today\u2019s young people will live through unprecedented lifetime exposure to heatwaves, crop failures, river floods, droughts, wildfires and tropical storms under current climate policies. If global temperatures rise by 3.5°C by 2100, 92% of children born in 2020 will experience unprecedented heatwave exposure over their lifetime, affecting 111 million children. Meeting the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C target could protect 49 million children from this risk. This is only for one birth year; when instead taking into account all children who are between 5 and 18 years old today, this adds up to 1.5 billion children affected under a 3.5°C scenario, and with 654 million children that can be protected by remaining under the 1.5°C threshold. The study also highlights that children with high socioeconomic vulnerability face an even greater likelihood of unprecedented exposure to climate extremes in their lifetime. Deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are urgently needed to safeguard the lives of children all around the world.</div></div><dl class="dl-horizontal meta hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); margin-right: 110px;"><dt class="yellow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; float: left; width: auto; clear: left; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; text-transform: uppercase; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(255, 177, 52); padding-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 12px; min-width: 100px;">JOURNAL</dt><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 100px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nature</em></dd></dl></a><div>
<meta charset="UTF-8"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br>=====<br><br>\u201cIf warming reaches or exceeds 2 °C \u2026, mainly richer humans will be responsible for killing roughly 1 billion mainly poorer humans through anthropogenic global warming, which is comparable with involuntary or negligent manslaughter.\u201d</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br>Energies 2023, 16(16), 6074; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16166074<br>Quantifying Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Human Deaths to Guide Energy Policy <br>by Joshua M. Pearce And Richard Parncutt <br><br> https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/16/6074</div></div>
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