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Climate disasters uproot tens of millions of children, Unicef reports

A mother, whose house burned down, tends to her baby at an evacuee encampment in a parking lot in Chico, California, on November 15, 2018. AFP - JOSH EDELSON

Extreme weather events fueled by climate change have displaced more than 43 million over the past six years, research by the UN Children's Fund (Unicef) has found.

From 2016 to 2021, floods, storms, droughts and wildfires – spurred by global warming – led to the uprooting of 43.1 million children in 44 countries, says a report by Unicef and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), published Thursday.

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