Climate change is raising temperature in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at a faster rate than the global average, increasing the frequency and the intensity of extreme weather events l...
This paper argues that climate change is the greatest current and future threat to children’s care in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. Responding to this threat requires urgent coordinated acti...
Children are uniquely vulnerable to air pollution, with devastating effects on their health and development. Scientific evidence shows air pollution contributes to adverse birth outcomes including pre...
Heatwaves pose serious risks to children’s health and well-being. Despite the extensive risks children face from heatwaves and other climate hazards, public awareness, policy responses and financing a...
UNICEF, national stakeholders and international partners are collaborating on the Children’s Climate Risk Index-Disaster Risk Model (CCRI-DRM) subnational risk assessment to improve the understanding ...
The Toolkit for Young Climate Activists in Latin America and the Caribbean was created by young people who, like you, are concerned about our planet and, as activists, have faced many challenges in ad...
For children, adolescents and young people with disabilities, the possibility of participating in certain conversations is often limited because they lack the necessary words, usually because they do ...
The climate crisis is a child rights crisis. It is a direct threat to a child’s ability to survive, grow and thrive. Children and young people are the least responsible for climate change yet will bea...
The climate crisis is a child rights crisis presents the Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI), which uses data to generate new global evidence on how many children are currently exposed to climate and...