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On the weekend of 28 and 29 November, hundreds of thousands of people marched around the world, showing the overwhelming public demand for urgent action on climate change. Now is the moment for millions of us to declare that we all share a vision of a better future and demand that our leaders put it into practice. A world free of poverty, inequalities and climate change is within our reach...

More than half a billion children live in areas with extremely high flood occurrence and 160 million in high drought severity zones, leaving them highly exposed to the impacts of climate change, Unicef said in a report released ahead of the 21st United Nations climate change conference, known as COP21. Leah Kreitzman, Unicef UK Director of Public Affairs said 'the Paris Agreement must commit to ensuring human rights, including children’s rights, are an overarching principle in guiding climate action.'...

12-year-old Sonam, a student of Std. VI from Darbhanga district of Bihar, is the head of a student taskforce team for DRR. When talking to delegates in regards to children in DRR she told them ' we do not want to be looked upon as vulnerable segment, but we want be part of the team...a proper plan on school disaster management should be in place' writes The Hindu...

'Why do I care so much about this issue?' Mr. Ban asked in an opinion piece published today in some 70 countries’ media outlets ahead of the UN climate change conference, COP21. 'First, like any grandfather, I want my grandchildren to enjoy the beauty and bounty of a healthy planet. And like any human being, it grieves me to see that floods, droughts and fires are getting worse,' he explained...

This report looks at how children, and particularly the most vulnerable, are affected by the consequences of climate change and what concrete steps need to be taken to protect them.

Climate change means more droughts, floods, heatwaves and other severe

Governments meeting in Paris next week must agree a strong new deal to curb global warming because they owe it to the world's children, with hundreds of millions highly exposed to the impacts of climate change, the U.N. children's agency said...

With children still traumatized and families struggling to prepare for winter, UNICEF is helping to provide psychosocial support following the 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck Afghanistan on 26 October.

This report presents an overview of the current situation in the 14 most affected districts by the 2015 Nepal Earthquake and UNICEF's work with children and their communities to ensure reconstruction with resilience.