WASHINGTON, July 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Climate change is predicted to increase the intensity and negative impacts of urban heat events, prompting the need to develop preparedness and adaptation strategies that reduce societal vulnerability to extreme heat. The potential health impacts resulting from climate change are essential to policy discussions about reducing greenhouse gas emissions and about social adaptation to climate change. Children represent a particularly vulnerable group that is likely to suffer disproportionately from both direct and indirect adverse health effects of climate change. Anticipated direct health consequences of climate change include injury and death from extreme weather events and natural disasters; increases in climate sensitive infectious diseases; increases in air pollution-related illness; and more heat related, potentially fatal, illness. Within all of these categories, children experience greater vulnerability in comparison to other groups. The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies has brought together experts to discuss these issues with key stakeholders and provide policy solutions.

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