Climate change and impacts

Outside the town of Ouanaminthe, Haiti, a child wades through the flood waters where several small villages suffered significant damages caused by Hurricane Irma. 8 September 2017.

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Youth propose climate actions in Costa Rica global conference

Regional challenge for youth-led solutions to climate change is launched ahead of COP25

07/10/2019

16 children, including Greta Thunberg, file landmark complaint to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child

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16 children, including Greta Thunberg, file landmark complaint to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child

Child petitioners protest lack of government action on climate crisis

23/09/2019

New York City: a girl speaks into a loud speaker at a climate action demonstration.

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Youth for climate action

Elevating the voices of young people to protect the future of our planet

13/09/2019

Alaska, United States: a girl wearing a red coat stands on an ice floe.

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Environment and climate change

Climate change and environmental degradation undermine the rights of every child

13/09/2019

On 24 October 2016 in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria, children pass in front of a flame fed by waste and rubber materials in order to make Kanda, a type of smoked meat, at an abattoir. The workers at the slaughterhouse use cow bones, rubber tires, electric wires, aluminum cans and other waste to sustain the flames, making the fumes very dangerous to inhale.

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Only 6 per cent of children in Africa live in areas where air pollution is reliably measured at the ground-level

More reliable ground-level measurements are required to combat this silent killer of children, particularly in Africa where the problem is growing and gravely under-studied

04/06/2019

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Global hunger continues to rise, new UN report says

821 million people now hungry and over 150 million children stunted, putting hunger eradication goal at risk

10/09/2018

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Paddling to school in Zambia

How a climate change adaptation project is keeping children in school during flooding season

06/09/2018

Rohingya refugee children wade through flood waters surrounding their families' shelters following an intense pre-monsoon wind and rain storm in Shamlapur Makeshift Settlement, Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh on 20 May 2018.

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Children among most vulnerable as extreme weather events continue around the world

Record heatwaves, floods and droughts ‘a stark vision of the world we are creating for future generations’

31/08/2018

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UNICEF announces twenty finalists for first ever Climate! Comic! Contest!

06/11/2017

Dabo Boru, 21, with her two-year-old daughter

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Severe drought threatens 4 million with food insecurity

Children in northern Kenya are impacted in a crisis fast becoming one of hunger, thirst and disease

31/03/2017

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