690 million children at risk from climate change: UNICEF
Nearly 690 million of the world’s 2.3 billion children live in areas most exposed to climate change, facing higher rates of death, poverty and disease from global warming, the UN children’s agency said 24 November.
Almost 530 million children live in countries hardest-hit by high floods and tropical storms, mostly in Asia.
An additional 160 million kids are growing up in areas suffering severe droughts, mostly in Africa, UNICEF said in the report titled “Unless We Act Now.”
