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Children’s Climate Risk Index
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- ‘The Climate Crisis Is a Child Rights Crisis: Introducing the Children’s Climate Risk Index’ [CCRI] is released by UNICEF.
- It ranks countries based on children’s exposure to climate and environmental shocks such as cyclones and heatwaves.
- Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and India are among four South Asian countries where children are at extremely high risk of the impacts of the climate crisis.
- They rank 14th, 15th, 25th and 26th respectively.
- CCRI has placed India as one of the 33 extremely high-risk countries with flooding and air pollution being the repeated environmental shocks leading to socio-economic adverse consequences for women and children.
- Twenty-one of the world’s 30 cities with the most polluted air in 2020 were in India.
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