Half of world’s children exposed to at least three climate hazards, Unicef says

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More than one billion children worldwide are exposed to at least three overlapping climate hazards simultaneously, according to Unicef’s Children’s Climate Risk Report, which examined exposure to eight hazards: coastal floods, droughts, extreme heat, fires, heatwaves, river floods, sand and dust storms, and tropical storms. The Sahel region has over 4 million children facing the triple threat of heatwaves, extreme heat, and dust storms, while in Italy over 6 million children are exposed to prolonged heatwaves and drought. The same report finds that 123,000 children experience more than six such hazards in their lifetimes.