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Air pollution
Air pollution is one of the greatest threats to children’s health. Ninety-nine per cent of people in the world live in places where the air is considered unhealthy. When children breathe toxic air, it harms their health and jeopardizes their future. For children to grow up healthy, they need clean, safe air. Here ...
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300 kg of plastic in four months
When people doubted her project, a 16-year-old Eliza understood that she needed to work further to prove the opposite. Eliza’s project was the most debated on the sidelines of the intensive workshop on UPSHIFT technology. The jury swamped her with questions, and peers kept the fires of doubts. However, Eliza and h...
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Young people for a safe and clean environment
Social and environmental issues go hand in hand - that's what 13-year-old Nigina Shukurova from Isfara, in northern Tajikistan, realized back in 2018. Garbage bins are one of the most basic facilities in any city's infrastructure. But in 2018, Isfara’s communities were missing bins. Nigina is one of the most act...
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559 million children currently exposed to high heatwave frequency, rising to all 2.02 billion children globally by 2050
LONDON/NEW YORK, 25 October, 2022 – 559 million children are currently exposed to high heatwave frequency*, according to new research from UNICEF. Further, 624 million children are exposed to one of three other high heat measures - high heatwave duration, high heatwave severity or extreme high temperatures. During...
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One billion children at ‘extremely high risk’ of the impacts of the climate crisis - UNICEF
NEW YORK, 20 August 2021 – Young people living in the Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau are the most at risk of the impacts of climate change, threatening their health, education, and protection, and exposing them to deadly diseases, according to a UNICEF report launched today. ‘ T...