Storms, floods, fires and other extreme weather events led to more than 43 million displacements involving children between 2016 and 2021, according to a United Nations report.
But while catastrophes intensify, the world has yet to recognize climate migrants and find formal ways of protecting them.
Nearly a third, or 43 million of the 134 million times that people were uprooted from their homes due to extreme weather from 2016-21 included children.
Floods displaced children more than 19 million times in places like India and China.
Many are enduring “overlapping crises” — where risks from climate extremes are compounded by conflict, fragile institutions and poverty, Healy said.
Persons:
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Organizations:
United, UNICEF, Monitoring, AP
Locations:
United Nations, Somalia, Mogadishu, Philippines, India, China, U.S, Canada, Geneva, Horn, Africa, Caribbean, New Delhi, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Hanoi, Seattle, New York