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...
UNICEF works on disaster risk reduction (DRR) in 150 countries. Child-responsive DRR prioritizes children and young people in the whole disaster management cycle, ensuring their individual and collect...
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, and yet w...
The increasing frequency and severity of disaster events — exacerbated by an accelerating climate crisis, environmental degradation and lagging risk governance systems — means that children and young ...
UNICEF recognizes that children and young people often experience the most serious consequences from climate and environmental hazards, shocks and stresses. It also recognizes government-led climate p...
This advocacy brief on climate, environment, energy and disaster risk resilience (DRR) explains how UNICEF works for and with children and young people to reduce risk, adapt to a changing climate and ...
UNICEF recognizes the integral connection between equitable access to energy and child rights. Where sustainable energy access is lacking or unreliable, children and young people pay the biggest price...
Environmental hazards have been linked to a range of significant health risks for children. UNICEF is elevating action on climate change and environmental degradation for and with young people in its ...