ClimaKid
Digital solutions for attributing climate change impacts on child nutrition and health
Children in low- and middle-income countries are among those most at risk to the health impacts of climate change, not least through undernutrition, which has serious long-lasting consequences for individuals and society and may undermine decades of global health gains. Attribution science can drive urgent societal action. However, it is currently limited in scope, focusing mostly on heat and adult populations in high-income settings, largely because of the lack of accessible tools, methods, data, and interdisciplinary expertise.
Approach
This project will derive multiple climate attribution datasets, advance process-based crop models, and apply econometric, epidemiological and health impact assessment methods on underused data sources in order to quantify the already occurring impacts of climate change on child health. These will be integrated into an interactive digital open source tool (MILK). MILK will be co-designed in a series of workshops with the interdisciplinary project team and scientists and stakeholders from West Africa, Central/Eastern Africa, and South Asia. The attribution results will be set into the context of mitigation and adaptation options and complemented with an intergenerational justice perspective. The involvement of policy makers and other interested parties will be ensured throughout the project to advance the policy integration of the generated evidence.
Consortium Partners
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (lead), Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA), Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire (CSRS), DeVera Consulting, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Meteo Rwanda, Spactial Informatics Group (SIG-GIS), University of Edinburgh, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Duration
April 2025 - March 2028
Funding Agency
Wellcome Trust
Contact Persons
Sabine Undorf (PI), Nadine Grimm-Pampe, Audrey Brouillet, Christoph Gornott, David Abigaba, Amanda Wendt, Jillian Waid, Laura Nübler,
