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Child poverty and the Climate Crisis: A Disproportionate Burden

2024-02-26

Children in poverty and their families contribute the least to the climate crisis, yet they bear the brunt of it. Using data on multidimensional child poverty and climate risks from the Child Atlas, we investigated this intersection in a recent report by the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty. Our analysis finds that children living in poverty are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of extreme weather events.

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1.4 billion children missing out on basic social protection

2024-02-22

Social protection is a universal right and one of the most effective tools in reducing child poverty. It helps children and families to overcome barriers to accessing adequate nutrition, health, education and protection required to ensure children reach their full potential. But new data shows that just 28.1% of children aged 0-15 years globally have access to child or family benefit.

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Mapping Child Poverty: Using Machine Learning to provide a more Granular Picture of Child Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

2023-10-17

1 billion children live in multidimensional poverty, but traditional data sources often leave us in the dark about where exactly poor children live. Save the Children has been working with fellows from the University of Warwick's Data Science for Social Good initiative and UNICEF to fill this data gap, producing for the first time micro-estimates of multidimensional child poverty across Sub-Saharan Africa.

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