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Environment and Climate Change in East Asia & Pacific

Children in East Asia and the Pacific are faced with multiple challenges posed by the climate crisis, environmental degradation and rising inequity.

Psychosocial Support Activity with Children During Earthquake Emergency Response in Lebak Banten, 2022

24 November 2023

The Power of Young People: Advocating for Children's Rights

Young people can make a difference for children's rights, especially in times of crisis

Young people are talking at the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment no. 26 was formally launched in Southeast Asia

09 November 2023

UN Committee on the Rights of the Child calls for protecting children’s right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment in Southeast Asia

In the face of a deepening climate crisis, partners gather in Bangkok to recognize and reaffirm new obligations to protect the lives and futures of children

25 October 2023

Children at risk as yet another severe cyclone batters Vanuatu

Third tropical cyclone of 2023, reminder of the threat posed by climate change

Children from the Badjao indigenous communities living in Surigao City are among the most vulnerable people affected by Typhoon Rai.

06 October 2023

New UNICEF analysis shows that East Asia and the Pacific accounts for the most weather-related child displacements in the world

East Asia and Pacific region accounts for more than 44 per cent of global child displacements linked to weather-related disasters such as floods and storms

Makereta Nasiki, 13, sitting in what used to be her room, after the devastating path Cyclone Winston took trough the town of Ba on Viti Levu Island of Fiji.

13 September 2023

Children bearing brunt of stalled progress on extreme poverty reduction worldwide

333 million children globally survive on less than US$2.15 a day as new analysis reveals three lost years due to COVID-19

Nine-year-old Temo from Fiji sits by her family’s house that was destroyed by a cyclone.

How businesses can keep children safe from climate impacts

The Asia-Pacific Consultation brought business networks together to explore how the private sector can support resilience of children & their families

A social media card showing the climate crisis behind a sick, sad, hungry child being affected by it

Over The Tipping Point

Handling multiple, overlapping climate and non-climate shocks to create a better future for every child

Children playing in the library of a school damaged by Cyclone Winston at the Nabau District School, Ra Province, Fiji.

Children in East Asia and the Pacific face the greatest exposure to multiple climate disasters

Children in the region face six times more climate related shocks compared to their grandparents eroding their coping capacity and exacerbating inequality

A small girl, carrying an umbrella in the rain, walks past large bags of garbage and other debris on a narrow street in the flood-affected Bukit Duri neighbourhood of Central Jakarta.

Over the tipping point

How multiple, overlapping climate & environmental shocks & hazards on children in EAP are forever changing their futures 

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