UNICEF works in countries and territories across Europe and Central Asia to uphold the rights of every child. We work to ensure every child is protected, healthy and educated, focusing on the children left behind by wider economic and social progress.
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Spotlight: Front and centre in the fight against climate change
Almost 160 million children across Europe and Central Asia are impacted by climate change and environmental degradation. Compared to adults, children are also affected disproportionately by these risks – which threaten almost every aspect of their health and well-being at every stage of their development, starting in utero.
Children are hit first and hardest by every type of climate and environmental crisis.
Many children across the region face overlapping risks. Conflict, poverty, climate change and environmental degradation reinforce and compound each other to devastating effect. Despite this, children are often treated as an afterthought in the response to climate change and environmental degradation. UNICEF aims to ensure that they are front and centre.
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