The Children’s Climate Risk Report provides the most comprehensive picture to date of the threat to children from the climate crisis and its impacts. In an unprecedented level of detail, it shows how children’s exposure to multiple, overlapping climate hazards, combined with their inherent physical vulnerabilities and gaps in the social services they rely on, undermines their rights and increases their risk of harm.
Using new UNICEF datasets, this report presents high resolution estimates for a range of climate hazards that affect children. It also considers two hazards that are not primarily driven by Earth’s climate but are highly sensitive to and compounded by it – vector-borne diseases (malaria) and air pollution.
The analysis of hazards is linked to data on coverage of essential social services that directly affect children’s vulnerability and capacity to cope with the climate crisis, including health, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), education, child protection, and social protection services. This evidence is presented in a framework that governments and partners can use to identify where children are most at risk from climate-related hazards and act to reduce children’s climate vulnerabilities.
