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Increase in natural disasters related to climate change are likely to exacerbate the vulnerable of children who already live in the most disaster – prone continent: Asia. Between 1996 and 2005, over two-thirds of the people killed by natural disaster lived in Asia. The total number of people killed by natural disasters between 1996 and 2005 was 84% higher than the number of people killed in the decade before. Across the world, women and children are most vulnerable in natural disasters and most likely to perish. While earthquakes may or may not be triggered by climate change, the example from the Indians ocean tsunami 2004 illustrates the point: of the 226, 408 people killed by the tsunami, more than half were women, and in some regions four times as many as women as men were killed. More than a third of those killed were children.

Blibiography: Mr. Joseph Hwang