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Emerging Breakthroughs on Climate Change
What signals of breakthroughs in climate action are emerging globally, and how can they shape the future for children and youth?This groundbreaking report emerges from a unique youth-led horizon scanning exercise led by 12 UNICEF Leading Minds Fellows on Climate – young leaders from diverse regions and backgrounds...
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What does the future have in store for children?
The world is facing a new and intensifying era of crisis for children. Many of these crises – including climate change, conflict and economic instability – are closely interconnected. They reflect a world of rising geopolitical tensions and competition among nations, which are hindering the implementation of solutions. To uphold children’s rights…
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Prospects for Children in 2025: Building Resilient Systems for Children’s Futures
Prospects for Children in 2025: Building Resilient Systems for Children’s Futures is the latest edition of the Global Outlook, a series of reports produced each year by UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight, which look to the key trends affecting children and young people over the following 12...
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Child Rights Youth Foresight Report 2024
What does the future hold for children’s rights?How do children and young people envision the future of their education, health, work, privacy, security, technology and the environment?Twelve Youth Foresight Fellows embarked on an intensive journey to seek answers directly from more than 800 children and young peo...
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Leading Minds 2024: Climate action
Leading Minds harnesses the insight, foresight, and energy of youth, combining it with the wisdom and experience of world leaders to reimagine global leadership. The Leading Minds Fellowship on Climate provides a unique platform for young leaders to shape the agenda of the Leading Minds Conference 2024, focused on...
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The cooling dilemma amid climate change
Record heat blanketed nytimes.com | Phoenix Breaks Record With 19 Consecutive Days 110 Degrees or Higher much of the globe in the Summer of 2023. The planet is already ipcc.ch | s Climate Change 2021 1.1˚C hotter compared to the average temperature in 1850–1900 . Hot extremes including heat waves have become more frequent and intense since the…, The cooling conundrum, Excessive heat poses thelancet.com | The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on...
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Six ways we can make Loss and Damage finance work for children
Climate change is already with us. The world is feeling its impacts every day, and none so more than the most vulnerable people in the world – children. The world’s most marginalized children are suffering displacement, malnutrition, the loss of education, the destruction of traditional ways of life and even death...
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Prospects for Children in 2024: Cooperation in a Fragmented World
Prospects for Children in 2024: Cooperation in a Fragmented World is the latest edition of the Global Outlook, a series of reports produced each year by UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight, which look to the key trends affecting children and young people over the following 12 months and beyo...
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Accelerating ‘Green’ School-to-Work Transitions
The climate crisis portends catastrophic disruption to lives and livelihoods. However, many of the measures needed to address the crisis present important opportunity for economic development and the creation of new kinds of ethical and decent livelihoods. If young people are to participate in and benefit from the...
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A Tumultuous World Through Children’s Eyes
We are living in an era defined by three long-term challenges shaping the lives of children around the world. The first is the climate emergency. The second is the difficulty in separating fact from fabrication in the age of digital media. The third is the limited capacity of our political institutions to drive po...
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Global identity: The mindset for climate success
4 minute read, The question, “Where are you from?” has historically been straightforward. “I’m from Cardiff, in Wales,” is my default reply. But where we are from is no longer tied merely to our postcode, the city we were born in, or the country listed on our passport. Rather than focusing solely on where we are f...
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Climate mobility and children
Our climate is changing. Temperatures are rising and devastating extremes of weather are becoming ever more common. The world has proved slow to respond, with mitigation plans falling far short of what is needed to preserve the planet. In the words of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres: “The state o...