Nearly 1Bln children at \'extremely high risk\' globally due to climate change: UNICEF
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Nearly 1Bln children at \'extremely high risk\' globally due to climate change: UNICEF

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New York: One in two children around the world live in conditions exposing them to the extremely harmful effects of climate change, with those in the Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau jeopardized the most, the UN Children's Emergency Fund said on Friday. In a study titled "the climate crisis is a child rights crisis: Introducing the children's climate risk index," UNICEF said it has conducted the first comprehensive analysis of climate risk from a child's perspective, ranking countries based on their young populations' exposure to climate and environmental shocks. "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'," UNICEF said. The UN agency called on governments and other relevant bodies to invest more in climate adaptation and resilience for children, reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 45 per cent by 2030, raise awareness, engage young people in climate change policymaking, and ensure that the recovery from COVID-19 is green.

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