08 January 2025

Community-Generated Data in Mali Boosts Climate Action and Accountability

The climate crisis jeopardizes the wellbeing, rights and health of over  one billion children  globally. While there is an urgent need for frontier innovations that offer effective mitigation, adaptation and resilience solutions, the necessary investments aren’t being made. The UNICEF Venture Fund’s first Climat...
20 December 2024

Data-Driven Insights for Humanitarian Impact

Every data scientist knows the frustration of spending countless hours cleaning and preparing messy datasets—a task that consumes up to 80 per cent of project time and derails many promising initiatives. UNICEF’s East Asia Frontier Data Lab (FDL) , in partnership with Thinking Machines, tackled this challenge head...
03 December 2024

Catalysing a New Global Industry of Climate Innovators

UNICEF’s Innovation30 initiative, launched in 2023, brings together young climate innovators under 30 in collaboration with 13 leading global climate accelerators. Through rigorous evaluation managed by Undaunted/Imperial College London and the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), Innovation30...
25 November 2024

A Masterclass Series to Catalyze Climate Innovation

In 2023, UNICEF launched its Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan to harness the incredible potential of young people as key stakeholders in addressing the climate crisis. Through Innovation 30: Young Climate Innovators Shaping the Future , UNICEF is leveraging collaborative opportunities to identify, it...
21 November 2024

Financing the Climate Future

The urgent call for climate action has never been clearer. By 2030, an estimated $6.2 trillion in annual climate finance will be needed to meet global targets. Yet, young innovators—driving bold, transformative local solutions—remain largely excluded from the financial systems that could help scale their impact. U...
21 November 2024

Financing the Future

A UNICEF Innovation and KPMG feasibility study on climate finance for young innovators
11 June 2024

Bridging the Investment Gap in Climate Innovation

Young innovators around the world are spearheading climate innovation - transforming industries and reshaping environmental practices to secure a livable planet and a resilient future. With 3.8 billion people under the age of 30 today, youth’s potential for innovation and creativity holds the key to unprecedented ...
31 May 2024

Strengthening Emergency Response in Somalia

Somalia grapples with extreme climate fluctuations, from the most severe drought in four decades to historic floods within a matter of months. From 2020 to 2023 drought pushed the nation perilously close to famine with about 43,000 deaths in 2022, half of whom were children under five. As the drought subsided, it ...
16 May 2024

 A Breath of Fresh Air in Western Balkans  

In the Serbian city of Užice, where a quarter of the population is under the age of 18, the winter season often carries something other than snow. “To heat their homes, people burn coal, wet wood, old leather materials, and even tires. The resulting smog blocks your sight even at 30 meters, and it smells very bad...
15 April 2024

Youth Participation in Climate and Environmental Action

D’Banana Craft, an innovative solution led by young innovators Fahmi, 19, Fauzi, 23, and Fazly, 28, has become a local success story in exploring and experimenting with circular economy solutions in the tropical landscapes of Inanam Laut village, in the Borneo Island of Malaysia. Supported by Youth Environment Liv...
15 April 2024

Young Climate Leaders in the Seats of Power

When Uruguay’s climate change decision makers arrived for a routine meeting, they were surprised to find many of their seats occupied by adolescents and young people. For the first time in Uruguay’s history, the National System for Climate Change Response (SNRCC), the country's most important decision-making forum...
02 February 2024

Breathing Easy with AI

Air pollution has long been a global health concern due to its detrimental impact especially on children's well-being. The World Health Organization estimates that air pollution causes more than 2.2 million deaths in the Asia Pacific region every year, and scientific evidence solidly connects air pollution to adve...