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Climate change and impacts

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Rising to the Challenge

Youth Perspectives on Climate Change and Education in Bangladesh

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One Planet, One Youth, One Love

Mitigating climate change impacts in South Asia

A girl walks through a flood

World failing to provide children with a healthy life and a climate fit for their future: WHO-UNICEF-Lancet

As climate and commercial threats intensify, WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission presses for radical rethink on child health

A young Rohingya boy in a t-shirt holds an umbrella while rain falls. In the background is Cox's Bazaar, flooded with brown water.

FACT SHEET: ‘The climate crisis is a child rights crisis’

Mahadi, an adolescent boy, smiles at the camera wearing a dark blue shirt striped with red lines.

Battling climate change with school and success

[Youth Skills] On Mahadi's island, the challenges youth face are already being compounded by the effects of climate change. Mahadi is fighting back.....

Smriti looks across the frame in a bright yellow and green sari, lifting her arm and speaking outside.

Raising voices for climate change in Bangladesh

[CRC Article 24 – the right to a safe and clean environment] For years, 19-year-old Smriti has advocated to adapt to climate change impacts.....

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Climate change threatens lives and futures of over 19 million children in Bangladesh

UNICEF report calls for urgent action to keep children safe and mitigate impact on vital services

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A Gathering Storm

Twenty of Bangladesh’s 64 Districts are exposed to the greatest risk from climate change-related disasters, such as cyclone, flood, flash flood, drought etc

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Munni (9 years old) searches for metal in pile of garbage on the bank of river Buriganga in Old Dhaka...

Danger in the air

How air pollution may be affecting the brain development of young children around the world

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air pollution

Toxic air is harming our children

Twelve million babies in South Asia are breathing air that is six times more polluted than the international limits set by the World Health Organization.