September 17, 2024

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation urged world leaders Tuesday to increase global health spending where it is needed most to boost children's health and nutrition, especially in the face of the global climate crisis.

In its eighth annual Goalkeepers report, "A Race to Nourish a Warming World," the foundation projected that without immediate global action, climate change will condemn an additional 40 million children to stunting and 28 million more to wasting between 2024 and 2050. Scaling up solutions now can avoid this outcome while building resilience to climate change and spurring much-needed economic growth.

In 2023, the World Health Organization estimated that 148 million children experienced stunting, a condition where children don't grow to their full potential mentally or physically, and 45 million children experienced wasting, a condition where children become weak and emaciated, leaving them at much greater risk of developmental delays and death. These are the most severe and irreversible forms of chronic and acute malnutrition.

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