The Climate Crisis is a Child Rights Crisis: Introducing The Children's Climate Risk Index

Citation

Rees N, Barkhof M, Burdziej J, Lee S, Riley H & Connon I (2021) The Climate Crisis is a Child Rights Crisis: Introducing The Children's Climate Risk Index. UNICEF. New York: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). https://www.unicef.org/reports/climate-crisis-child-rights-crisis

Abstract
The climate crisis is a child rights crisis presents the Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI), which uses data to generate new global evidence on how many children are currently exposed to climate and environmental hazards, shocks and stresses. A composite index, the CCRI brings together geographical data by analyzing 1.) exposure to climate and environmental hazards, shocks and stresses; and 2.) child vulnerability. The CCRI helps to understand and measure the likelihood of climate and environmental shocks or stresses leading to the erosion of development progress, the deepening of deprivation and/or humanitarian situations affecting children or vulnerable households and groups.

People

Dr Irena Connon

Lecturer, Social Work