Climate change contributes to violence against children - here’s how

Climate change contributes to violence against children - here's how Professor Jenny Parkes, Associate Professor Simone Datzberger and Miss Lottie Howard-Merrill (Ioe, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society) discuss their new research in The Conversation on the links between climate change and violence against children. Every day of the northern hemisphere's summer in 2023 seems to bring a calamitous headline about the climate:  heatwaves ,  wildfires , massive  hailstorms. Such scenes are set to become our global reality in the coming years. Scientists paint a  grim picture  of how human-induced climate change, combined with wider environmental degradation, will affect us all. That, of course, includes children. However, research is still in its early stages on how, precisely, both climate change and environmental degradation relate to violence against children. It is crucial to explore these potential intersections to spur academic and political movement in this area.