‘Climate change sparks anxiety among children’

A new campaign by renewable electricity supplier 100Green shows that children are increasingly worried about the impact of climate change.

Among the surveyed was Jack, aged ten, who said that he would stop climate change altogether if he could.

The campaign follows research by children's charity, Save the Children which found that nearly 70% of the surveyed 3,000 children struggle with climate anxiety.

In fact, children today are set to face seven times more heatwaves during their lives than their grandparents.

Doug Stewart, Chairman of 100Green said: 'As we progress towards climate and net zero targets, in a 24 hours news environment, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that children as young as 10 have genuine anxiety about what the world will look like when they grow up.'

100Green notes that parents should set and example and take action, educate themselves and keep things positive when approaching climate change.

Gwen Hines, Chief Executive of Save the Children UK said: 'This generation of children stand to inherit a deeply unequal world if immediate action is not taken.

'The level of anxiety children feel about the world they are growing up in is alarming but warranted. Children should be excited about the future but instead they are carrying the weight of huge global issues which they had no part in creating.

'We need to listen to children and start taking serious action on the climate crisis and growing inequality. '