Children in Central, West Africa threatened by climate crisis, says UNICEF

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

CAPE TOWN - Young people living in the Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau are most at risk from the impact of climate change, threatening their health and education and exposing them to deadly diseases, according to a report launched by the United Nations Children’s Fund on Friday.

Launched in collaboration with Fridays for Future on the third anniversary of the youth-led global climate strike movement, the report says approximately one billion children, nearly half the world's 2.2 billion children, live in one of the 33 countries classified as “extremely high-risk”. They face 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 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,” UNICEF executive director Henrietta Fore said. “Virtually no child’s life will be unaffected. For three years, children have raised their voices around the world to demand action. UNICEF supports their calls for change with an unarguable message – the climate crisis is a child’s rights crisis.”

 

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