In Norway, it is young people like the best, Chad, you have the worst chances. All, however, United in the threat posed by the climate crisis.

The happiest children live, according to the study in Norway photo: Harald of Radebrechtt/imago

PARIS taz/afp | climate change is a "direct threat" to every child in the world. Showing a comprehensive UN study on the welfare of children. Also the destruction of the environment and poor nutrition worsened the life chances of young people, warned the United Nations on Wednesday presented the report. Dozens of health experts criticised the fact that no country in the world protects his child in a comprehensive manner.

The world health organization and the UN children's Fund Unicef had commissioned the study, which was published in the medical journal The Lancet. In the Background the Sustainable development goals, which were adopted by the United Nations in 2015, and directly with the rights of the child linked to are. More than 40 Expert!can be analyzed now 180 countries according to criteria such as education and nutrition, the impact on the health and well-being of children and young people.

especially in African countries under the age of 18, often under bad conditions of life, experiencing Hunger, violence and conflicts. At the lower end of the Rankings, the Central frikanische Republic and Chad landed. Best children's life in Norway and South Korea. Germany is in 14th place.

The "great message" of the report, however, is a different one – that "no country protects the health of children today and for the future," said Anthony Costello, Professor of International child health at University College London.

250 million children in poorer countries, lack to be fed, and therefore remained in their development, says the study. They could not exploit their potential for life. But above all, the health experts criticize!the excessive carbon dioxide emissions, which primarily come from the more prosperous Nations, but "the future of all the children threaten can". Young people would be burdened with additional health risks – from deadly heat waves, to increased spread of tropical diseases. The Scientist!can call on the world community, the reduction of CO2 emissions "as a matter of urgency" to tackle. "We agree with Greta Thunberg," says Costello.

in addition to climate change, experts see a further risk by "harmful business practices" of the industry, the children of the marketing of fat - and sugar-containing foods, alcohol, and tobacco suspend.

In the past 20 years had been in the area of child and adolescent health progress, but they were advised "now is Stalled" or even "at risk," reads the report. "The decision-makers of the world let the children and youth of today fail: they fail in the protection of their health, in the protection of their rights and the protection of their planet," said the WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus underlined the statement in the report.