Climate Change Puts 1/2 of World's Children at "Extremely High-Risk"

The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) issued its first comprehensive analysis of climate risk from a child’s perspective, entitled The Climate Crisis Is a Child Rights Crisis: Introducing the Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI), on 20 August 2021. The report found 1 billion children – nearly half the world's 2.2 billion children – live in one of the 33 countries classified as “extremely high-risk”.

These children face a deadly combination of exposure to multiple climate and environmental shocks with a high vulnerability due to inadequate essential services, such as water and sanitation, healthcare and education.

For details, see: https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/one-billion-children-extremely-high-risk-impacts-climate-crisis-unicef