Aid cuts mean children around the world who are facing some of the biggest climate challenges are falling “through the cracks” of the UK’s development agenda, the UN has warned.
A new analysis from the UK Committee for Unicef (Unicef UK) plots cuts to UK aid programmes against scores recorded in Unicef’s recently updated Global Child Hazard Database, which tracks how the world’s 1.1 billion children are exposed to climate threats – including droughts, extreme heat, cyclones, and floods – in different locations.