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Why I'm part of the conversation on climate change

Cressie Mawdesley-Thomas, Mon, May 20 2013 10:18 AM

I have just arrived in Geneva to attend the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, where I am going to be working with the Children in a Changing Climate coalition: Plan International, Save the Children, UNICEF and World Vision International.

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Climate change: a very real thing affecting our children, now.

Michael Sheen, Thu, Apr 25 2013 2:35 PM

Actor and UNICEF UK High Profile Supporter, Michael Sheen,  writes about climate change and its implication for the world's children.  

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A hostile partnership: climate change and hunger – Mahamad’s story

Kate Dentith, Thu, Apr 18 2013 5:18 PM

Floods, droughts, crop failures and rising food prices: just a few of the impacts of climate change that are having devastating effects on children's lives. Disasters such as typhoons and droughts - a result of climate change - are seriously compromising child nutrition and meaning many children are going to bed hungry. Hunger, malnutrition and climate change are so intrinsically linked, yet often discussed separately. Read Mahamad's story to see how the relationship between climate change and food is severely impacting the lives of families in Somalia.

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Protecting children from climate change, in 140 characters or less

Hayley Cull, Fri, Apr 12 2013 10:12 AM

You tweeted, DFID listened! Since Monday, UNICEF UK campaigners have been tweeting @JustineGreening, Secretary of State for International Development, and posting on Facebook to show that they want to see children protected from the impacts of climate change. We were hoping for answers on how the Department for International Development (DFID) is leading on this critical issue that threatens over 100 million children every year.

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#AskGreening to protect children from climate change

Jazmin Burgess, Mon, Apr 8 2013 10:36 AM

 An important conference for children.

On the 15 and 16 April a conference on climate justice, nutrition and hunger is taking place in Ireland. Ahead of this important conference, we need to make sure DFID recognise the impacts of climate change on children.

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Speak up success: what we achieved in 2012

Natasha Adams, Fri, Mar 8 2013 2:03 PM



Climate change is an issue I’ve always wanted to campaign on - it is such an obvious problem which threatens the future of our (and many other) species. Campaigning can generate the political will needed to take meaningful action to halt runaway climate change, and to protect people already suffering from its effects.

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The legacy of Hurricane Sandy and the climate finance debate

Jazmin Burgess, Thu, Jan 3 2013 11:32 AM

Last week, the US Senate passed a bill allocating $60 billion in federal money to support relief for Hurricane Sandy victims and the post-storm recovery efforts. This figure is notable in size and scale - $60 billion to help those impacted in the US, a developed country, cope with the impacts of a single climate change related natural disaster. It also presents an interesting dimension to the climate finance debate that we at UNICEF UK are actively engaged in.

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Beyond Doha: Making progress for children in 2013

Jazmin Burgess, Wed, Dec 12 2012 3:27 PM

As the dust settles after the Doha climate talks, one of the most contentious issues of the whole talks was the mobilisation of long term climate finance- financial flows from developed countries to developing countries to help them cope with the growing impacts of climate change and embark on a low carbon path to development.

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Time to open our eyes to climate change

Cressie Mawdesley-Thomas, Mon, Dec 10 2012 9:00 AM

Today is young and future generations day, and I feel immensely privileged to stand here before you, as a young woman who believes that together, if young people and women are empowered, we can and we will find some of the solutions to climate change. We are all people. We all live on this planet called earth, there is somewhere here we all call home. We are all stakeholders in global society.

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The Doha Work Programme: the great and underpublicised achievement of COP 18

Jazmin Burgess, Thu, Dec 6 2012 11:07 AM

On Monday, I spoke at an event here at COP 18 in Doha, launching a new initiative on Article 6, a core part of the UN climate framework that supports the provision of education, training and public awareness on climate change. COP 18 has agreed on the 'Doha Work Programme'; a multi year education and public awareness programme aiming to improve knowledge and skills on climate change. UNICEF will be helping to deliver this programme around education amongst children.

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Why COP 18 is so important for children in the Philippines

Louisa Leadlay, Tue, Dec 4 2012 3:32 PM

In April I visited the Philippines to see how UNICEF is helping children recover from disasters and prepare for future ones. We visited Cagayan de Oro, which was badly hit by Tropical Storm Washi nearly a year ago on 16 December 2011. The area had not experienced such a devastating tropical storm before, which meant that people, especially poorer families, were unprepared.

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Why I visited my MP to Speak up for Children

Joanna Bracken, Fri, Nov 30 2012 12:43 PM

I recently met my MP, Stephen Williams of Bristol West, on behalf of UNICEF UK. I wanted to discuss UNICEF UK's Speak Up for Children campaign with Stephen and persuade him to contact Ed Davey, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, in support of the Green Climate Fund.

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What's on the table at COP 18 for the world's children?

Jazmin Burgess, Wed, Nov 28 2012 2:22 PM

On Monday I arrived in Doha, Qatar for COP 18, the 18th session of the UN Climate Negotiations. The negotiations, which delivered the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, are currently focused on extending the Protocol and agreeing a new legally binding deal among all countries by 2015.

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My day out with UNICEF UK

Guest Blogger, Wed, Nov 28 2012 2:03 PM

Global warming is something we hear so often that our ears have become accustomed to it. However global warming is a reality, and unless we all play our part to mitigate the effects, then not only will it affect us, it will also have a severe impact on the generations to come. Which personally I think is quite sad, because they would have to suffer for our selfish actions.

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Labour Leader Ed Miliband re-affirms commitment to the Green Climate Fund

Guest Blogger, Wed, Nov 28 2012 12:24 PM

@UNICEF UK/2012/Dharan Kirupanantham

A few days ahead of COP 18, we had a meeting with the Leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband, as part of UNICEF UK's Speak Up For Children campaign. We wanted Mr Miliband to publicly question the Government ahead of the talks and re-affirm Labour’s commitment to achieving the $100 billion target for the Green Climate Fund.

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