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Environment

Children play 'hide and seek' in Teone's graveyard in Tuvalu, 2015. Massive coastal erosion in Teone caused many coconut trees to fall down.
Programme
04 May 2021
Healthy environments
Environmental hazards have been linked to a range of significant health risks for children
Document
28 June 2022
Key messages for Healthy Environments for Healthy Children

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Smiling-girl
Report
03 June 2022
Global Annual Results Report 2021: Safe & clean environment
Goal Area 4: Progress, results achieved and lessons from 2021

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A young girl holding up her excisise book to keep it out of the flood water
Press release
23 May 2022
Over-consumption in the world’s richest countries is destroying children’s environments globally, new report says
The world’s richest countries – including Finland, Iceland, the Netherlands and Norway – are providing healthier environments for children within their borders, yet are disproportionately contributing to the destruction of the global environment
Water rises in Beira, Mozambique, in early 2021 as a cyclone threatens a community still recovering from the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai in in March 2019. The category 4 storm claimed hundreds of lives and adversely impacted 3 million people across Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi and Zimbabwe.
Programme
19 May 2022
Disaster risk reduction and recovery
Prioritized action to ensure that every country is prepared for disaster and every child is protected
Burundi. A child plays around floodwaters.
News note
02 November 2021
UNICEF analysis finds just 34 per cent of national climate policies are child-sensitive
Geneva Palais briefing note on COP26 and the inclusion of children and young people in climate-related decision-making
Child-Sensitive Climate and Environment Policies
Document
01 November 2021
Child-Sensitive Climate and Environment Policies
A discussion paper on child sensitivity and 2020-2021 nationally determined contributions (NDCs)

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A girl with a loud speaker and a sign that reads "Justice Climatica" protests climate change
News note
01 November 2021
FACT SHEET: COP26 - Children and climate change
a water supply technician at work
Report
07 September 2021
WASHREG: Overview and methodology
Understanding WASH regulation for effective and sustainable WASH service delivery

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Sara, 14 years old, a child of a displaced family in the IDP camp in Ibb, Yemen, washes the dishes after the water became available thanks to the rehabilitation of the well with UNICEF support in 2021.
Press release
22 August 2021
“Running Dry”: unprecedented scale and impact of water scarcity in the Middle East and North Africa
As we mark World Water Week, 90 per cent of children in MENA live in areas of high-water stress with serious consequences on their health, nutrition and development.