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Climate change

A child jumps over a puddle of water.
Statement
01 March 2022
Today, 1 billion of the world’s most vulnerable children are at extreme risk. If the world fails to act, tomorrow it will be all children. It is past time to put children at the center of climate action.
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) AR6 Report
A mother helps her daughter with online studies while schools are shut during COVID-19 in India.
Press release
18 November 2021
Landmark intergenerational poll shows young people are 50% more likely than older generations to believe the world is becoming a better place – yet impatient for action on mounting crises
Amid COVID-19 pandemic, younger generation also more likely to trust scientists and embrace international cooperation, according to a UNICEF-Gallup international survey of more than 21,000 children and adults released for World Children’s Day
Asia-Africa Youth Dialogue participants receive certificates
Article
03 November 2021
Young people share their solutions to climate change
UNICEF with partners co-organized a multiday forum to hear young people’s solutions to the climate crisis.
A girl protects herself from the heavy rains by wearing a raincoat as she returns home from a shelter after the passage of Hurricane Iota in Nicaragua, in Bilwi, on November 16, 2020.
Press release
20 August 2021
One billion children at ‘extremely high risk’ of the impacts of the climate crisis - UNICEF
Children in the Central African Republic, Chad, and Nigeria are among the most at risk of climate change, according to UNICEF’s first child-focused climate risk index
A girl protects herself from the heavy rains by wearing a raincoat as she returns home from a shelter after the passage of Hurricane Iota in Nicaragua, in Bilwi, on November 16, 2020.
Report
20 August 2021
The Climate Crisis is a Child Rights Crisis
Introducing the Children’s Climate Risk Index

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Aruna, 28, giving Kangaroo Mother Care to a newborn child in Baria District Hospital, Baria, Gujarat.
Press release
17 February 2021
Building trust in vaccines, addressing the youth mental health crisis, and bridging the digital divide among key opportunities for the world’s children post-pandemic - UNICEF
In an open letter about reimagining the world after COVID-19, UNICEF’s Executive Director highlights five lessons from the global pandemic
Deepika Jakaka, a 1st grader, plays with her classmates at the wonderfully green courtyard of the Ramachandrapur upper primary school in Rayagada district, Odisha.
Press release
18 September 2019
Protracted conflict, the climate crisis, a rise in mental illness and online misinformation among biggest emerging threats to children
In an open letter marking 30 years since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF’s Executive Director sounds the alarm on major growing and future challenges facing children
An open letter to the world’s children
Blog post
18 September 2019
An open letter to the world’s children
8 reasons why I’m worried, and hopeful, about the next generation.
Examples of sources of air pollution
Press release
31 October 2016
Pollution: 300 million children breathing toxic air - UNICEF report
UN Children's Fund calls for urgent action at upcoming COP 22