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Strategies and approaches to empower children and youth and engage them as actors and contributors in DRR and resilience-building policies, programmes and strategies.

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COPE Disaster Champions, in collaboration with SUSS, is thrilled to announce the official launch of a new interactive learning platform hosted on SUSS UniLEARN.

COPE Disaster Champions
Singapore University of Social Sciences
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
In a preschool class in South Africa, boy looking to camera.
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This performance, the flag, and other creative expressions—mosaic murals, conservation flags, and “seed bombs”—were all part of the Art Never Dries student workshops.

World Bank, the
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The pandemic exposed our vulnerabilities more starkly than any recent event. Yet we have failed to embed its lessons into the curriculum. Let's learn from other countries.

Schools Week
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Education about climate change and sustainability is a vital part of responding to a rapidly changing world, including the negative effects of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.

Conversation Media Group, the
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Save the Children, with funding from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), has launched a US$17 million project to strengthen climate resilience through education across South Sudan.

Save the Children International
Research briefs

Researchers have identified a potential link between wildfire smoke — one of the fastest-growing sources of air pollution in the United States — and preterm birth, but no study has been big or broad enough to draw definitive conclusions.

University of Waterloo
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Location: Libya Malawi
In climate-vulnerable regions like Malawi and Libya, community-based monitoring initiatives are driving improvements in EWS capabilities.
  • United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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About 48 million children a year, or 136,000 children a day, have been affected by climate disasters since the first COP climate summit was held 30 years ago.

Save the Children International
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