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Climate change and impacts

Ishrafi Khatun (10) stands in front of her school, Borobari Govt. Primary in Bangladesh, that has been submerged under water for the past few days due to severe flood.
Article
25 August 2022
Water and the global climate crisis
The world needs to get water smart. Everyone has a role to play, and we cannot afford to wait.
On 26 September 2021 a group of migrants in South Sudan, displaced from their homes by floods, use a tarp to float down the Sobat River in search of higher ground.
Article
19 August 2022
Investing in children’s survival and well-being on a healthy
World Humanitarian Day
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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Claudine and her child heading back to their home in Mantara, Madagascar, after walking 14km to find water.
Press release
19 March 2021
One in five children globally does not have enough water to meet their everyday needs – UNICEF
UNICEF launches new initiative, Water Security for All, to mobilize global support and resources to reach children in water vulnerable hotspots
Press release
22 March 2016
Climate change and lack of sanitation threaten water safety for millions - UNICEF
#ClimateChain Instagram campaign will highlight water and the environment
Girls tend the school garden at the Catholic primary school in the village of Busamana, about 30 km from the town of Gisenyi, in Western Province.
Press release
26 November 2015
Children will bear the brunt of climate change - UNICEF
More than half a billion children live in areas with extremely high flood occurrence 160 million live in high drought severity areas
Article
08 February 2013
Air pollution and birth defects
Dr. Robert Scherpbier, UNICEF's Chief of Health and Nutrition in China, recently was interviewed by VOA on the effects of air pollution on children.