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The Climate Crisis is a Child Rights Crisis

Introducing the Children’s Climate Risk Index

Girl in raincoat, Hurricane Iota in Nicaragua, November 2020
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Highlights

The climate crisis is a child rights crisis presents the Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI), which uses data to generate new global evidence on how many children are currently exposed to climate and environmental hazards, shocks and stresses. A composite index, the CCRI brings together geographical data by analyzing 1.) exposure to climate and environmental hazards, shocks and stresses; and 2.) child vulnerability. The CCRI helps to understand and measure the likelihood of climate and environmental shocks or stresses leading to the erosion of development progress, the deepening of deprivation and/or humanitarian situations affecting children or vulnerable households and groups. 

Additional translations of the Executive Summary are available in the following languages, with thanks to Climate Cardinals:

The climate crisis is a child rights crisis
Author(s)
UNICEF
Publication date
Languages
English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Hausa, Portuguese, Somali, Swahili
ISBN
978-92-806-5276-5

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