UNICEF | How climate change impacted Aisha's childhood

Learn how climate change has affected Aisha and her family. Aisha is among the one billion children – nearly half of the world’s children – who are at extremely high risk of the impacts of the climate crisis.

A child born today will face an increased risk from severe floods, prolonged droughts, heat stress and changing patterns of disease. Weather-related disasters have displaced at least 43 million children (about twice the population of New York State) over the last six years and destroyed critical infrastructure, crops and contaminated or disrupted water supplies. As temperatures go up, harvests will shrink, leading to food insecurity, higher food prices and malnutrition in children. Rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns will impact the spread of infectious diseases, including malaria and dengue. Climate change is expected to worsen air quality with increased ground-level ozone and wildfires.