{"id":74098,"date":"2021-08-21T09:10:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T07:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/?p=74098"},"modified":"2021-08-21T09:10:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T07:10:11","slug":"one-billion-children-at-extremely-high-risk-of-the-impacts-of-the-climate-crisis-unicef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/en\/environment\/one-billion-children-at-extremely-high-risk-of-the-impacts-of-the-climate-crisis-unicef\/","title":{"rendered":"One billion children at \u2018extremely high risk\u2019 of the impacts of the climate crisis – UNICEF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Children in the Central African Republic, Chad, and Nigeria are among the most at risk of climate change, according to UNICEF\u2019s first child-focused climate risk index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Young people living in the Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau are the most at risk of the impacts of climate change, threatening their health, education, and protection, and exposing them to deadly diseases, according to a UNICEF report launched today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018The Climate Crisis Is a Child Rights Crisis: Introducing the Children\u2019s Climate Risk Index\u2019<\/a><\/em> is the first comprehensive analysis of climate risk from a child\u2019s perspective. It ranks countries based on children\u2019s exposure to climate and environmental shocks, such as cyclones and heatwaves, as well as their vulnerability to those shocks, based on their access to essential services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Launched in collaboration with Fridays for Future on the third anniversary of the youth-led global climate strike movement, the report finds approximately 1 billion children \u2013 nearly half the world’s 2.2 billion children \u2013 live in one of the 33 countries classified as \u201cextremely high-risk\u201d. 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. The findings reflect the number of children impacted today \u2013 figures likely to get worse as the impacts of climate change accelerate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor the first time, we have a complete picture of where and how children are vulnerable to climate change, and that picture is almost unimaginably dire. Climate and environmental shocks are undermining the complete spectrum of children\u2019s rights, from access to clean air, food and safe water; to education, housing, freedom from exploitation, and even their right to survive. Virtually no child\u2019s life will be unaffected,\u201d said Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director. \u201cFor three years, children have raised their voices around the world to demand action. UNICEF supports their calls for change with an unarguable message \u2013 the climate crisis is a child\u2019s rights crisis.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 UNICEF | Espinoza Delgado | Kevin, 7, returned with his mother to his community in Wawa Bar and only found the rubble of what was once his home. The 475 families that inhabited the community were left without a home and livelihood. Nicaragua, 25 November 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Children\u2019s Climate Risk Index (CCRI) reveals:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n