Children and youth

At two hospitals in Texas, the number of children coming into the ER with heat-related illnesses more than doubled between 2012 and 2023.

Children are particularly vulnerable to such environmental stressors. This column uses nationwide exam data from Japanese primary and secondary schools to explore how heat exposure affects student learning.

For the first time, this report provides country-level estimates of child displacement across all eight countries of South Asia. Across South Asia, millions of children are being uprooted by the accelerating climate crisis.

This report highlights that investing in the resilience of the most vulnerable children in Eastern and Southern Africa is not only a moral imperative – it is a strategic investment in the stability, prosperity, and sustainability of communities.

This study investigates the role of Child-Friendly Green Spaces (CFGS) in supporting children's psychological, physical, and educational recovery in the wake of disasters.

This document considers how extreme heat poses serious and growing risks to children's health, safety, and education - yet how schools and childcare facilities are unprepared to handle rising temperatures.

The Hawaii Department of Education estimates more than a third of Maui students lost a family member, sustained a serious injury or had a parent lose a job after the fires.

Experts hope urban redesign projects can solve a climate crisis in classrooms that left 30 million students in Latin America without teaching last year.