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A girl plays in the playground at Srae Tahen primary school, Cambodia

Healthy environments

Environmental hazards have been linked to a range of significant health risks for children

School children walking through flood waters

09 December 2020

WASH and climate change

Making water, sanitation and hygiene services adaptive, safe and resilient

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell

01 September 2023

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell visits Brazil to highlight the impact of poverty and climate change on children

The Executive Director’s visit to Sao Paulo, Recife and Brasilia highlight the more than half of Brazil’s children living in poverty, with many more vulnerable to climate and environmental risks

a child stands with sand running through his fingers. he is in an arid landscape.

01 September 2023

Children in 98 per cent of African countries at high or extremely high risk of the impacts of climate change: UNICEF

As the African Climate Summit opens in Nairobi, new report reveals, despite the risks, only 2.4% of global climate funding targets children

Noriah Kanyama drinking water at school from a tap installed with support from UNICEF.

UN Committee on the Rights of the Child calls on states to take action in first guidance on children's rights and the environment, with a focus on climate change

In the face of the deepening climate crisis, the Committee specified obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Muriko bibi (7) and Tehseen (6) sit on the damaged wall of their mud house which was almost destroyed during the 2022 floods in Pakistan. They belong to village Chitool, Rajanpur district of South Punjab province, Pakistan. The flood water completely inundated their village and they were forced to live on the embankment of a damaged road for weeks before moving back to their village where almost every house was damaged or destroyed. One of the major problems the community faced was not having clean drinkin

One year on from catastrophic floods, millions of children in Pakistan still need urgent support

Climate, Environment, Energy & Disaster Risk Reduction - Global Annual Results Report 2022

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CEED Global Annual Results Report 2022 (PDF, 5 MB)

Saima, 10, (right) goes to fetch water with her sister (behind) near a contaminated pond in Allah Abad, Jampur, South Punjab, Pakistan.

76 per cent of children exposed to extreme high temperatures in South Asia - UNICEF

With heat and high humidity in South Asia, UNICEF urges local authorities, frontline health workers and caregivers to help vulnerable children and families

Milica Radovanovic (11) and Lazar Seferovic (11) cool off during a hot day in Belgrade, Serbia, July 2022

1 in 2 children in Europe and Central Asia are exposed to high heatwave frequency, double the global average

To protect children – who are particularly vulnerable to the effects of heatwaves – UNICEF outlines six policy recommendations for governments across the region

a man poses for the camera with his daughter

Global annual results report 2022 : Goal Area 4

Every child lives in a safe and clean environment

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