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Environment

10 November 2022

300 kg of plastic in four months

A sixteen-year-old girl and her team implement an environmental project in Belarus

10 November 2022

Young people for a safe and clean environment

How UNICEF and local authorities support young people in Tajikistan in their pursuit of eco-activism for a sustainable future

Climate change

25 October 2022

559 million children currently exposed to high heatwave frequency, rising to all 2.02 billion children globally by 2050

UNICEF warns urgent action is needed to increase funding for adaptation to protect children and vulnerable communities from worsening heatwaves and other climate shocks.

climate change

One billion children at ‘extremely high risk’ of the impacts of the climate crisis - UNICEF

Children in the Central African Republic, Chad, and Nigeria are among the most at risk of climate change, according to UNICEF’s first child-focused climate risk index.