The United Nations Children Fund said in a new report on Friday that at least 242 million children were disrupted in 85 countries due to summer waves, cyclones, floods and other extreme weather.
UNICEF said that one of the seven children going to school around the world would be excluded from class at some time in 2024 due to climate hazards.
The report also explained how some countries have seen hundreds of their schools being destroyed due to weather, low-income countries in Asia and Sub-Sahara Africa have been particularly strict.
But other areas also did not survive the extreme weather, as torrential rains and floods in Italy at the end of the year disrupts more than 900,000 children’s school. Classes of thousands of people were closed after the devastating floods in Spain.
UNICEF said, while Southern Europe was struggling with deadly floods and floods and cyclones in Asia and Africa, the heat waves were “the major climate threat to closure schools last year”, as Earth has the hottest year ever Had recorded.
UNICEF said, in April alone, school education of more than 118 million children was interrupted, because from Gaza in the west to the Philippines in the southeast, the Middle East and large part of Asia experienced the scorching heat and temperature 40 Reached above the degree. Celsius.
“Children are more sensitive to meteorological crises, including fast and more frequent heat waves, storms, droughts and floods,” UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell said in a statement. “Children’s bodies are uniquely weak. They are rapidly warm, they sweat less efficiently and cool more slowly than adults. Children are unable to focus in those classes where severe There is no relief from the heat, and if the water is flooded on the way, they cannot go to school, or if the school flows. ”
About 74% of children affected in 2024 were in moderate and lower-or-low countries, showing that the disastrous effect of extreme climate continues in the poorest countries. In April, floods ruined more than 400 schools in Pakistan. UNICEF said that in May, there was heat stroke in Afghanistan and thereafter there was a severe flood, destroying more than 110 schools.
The school education and future of millions of children were in danger due to the drought in Southern Africa due to the incident of El Nino weather.
And there were very few signs of crisis being reduced. The poor French region of Myat in the Indian Ocean near Africa was ruined by Cyclone Chido in December and was re -killed by the tropical storm Dikeladi this month, which led to the child out of school for six weeks.
Cyclone Chido also destroyed more than 330 schools and three regional education departments in Mozambic on African mainland, where access to education is already a deep problem.
UNICEF said that the world’s school and education systems are “largely insufficient” to deal with the effects of extreme weather.
