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1 successful 7 students faced disruption successful schoolhouse acquisition owed to clime hazards: UNICEF. (Express photograph by Praveen Khanna)
At slightest 1 successful 7 schoolhouse students crossed the satellite faced disruption successful schoolhouse acquisition owed to clime hazards successful 2024 claims a study by UNICEF. The study titled ‘Learning Interrupted: Global Snapshot of Climate-related School Disruptions successful 2024’ reveals that astatine slightest 242 cardinal students successful 85 countries – from pre-primary to precocious secondary acquisition – person experienced schoolhouse disruptions past twelvemonth owed to climatic events.
The UNICEF study suggested that India is nether an ‘extremely vulnerable’ class to the impacts of clime change. It besides ranked the state 26 retired of 163 countries nether the UNICEF Children’s Climate Risk Index. It mentioned that implicit 5 crore Indian schoolhouse students were affected by the heatwave successful 2024.
Key highlights of the UNICEF report:
— The study revealed that astatine slightest 20 countries had nationwide schoolhouse disruptions past twelvemonth owed to climate-induced disasters.
–74 per cent of the 242 cardinal affected students are successful debased and lower-middle-income countries, with an mean Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI) people of 7 retired of 10.
–In Africa, the concern is each the much arsenic implicit 107 cardinal children person dropped retired of schoolhouse with an further 20 cardinal children astatine hazard of dropping out.
— September was recorded arsenic the astir predominant climate-related schoolhouse disruption wherein the bulk of schools were closed astatine slightest successful 18 countries.
–On the different hand, April saw the highest planetary climate-related schoolhouse disruptions, peculiarly with heatwaves which affected astatine slightest 118 cardinal children successful Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, the Philippines, and Thailand.
–In 2024, heatwaves were the astir important clime hazard worldwide starring to disruption successful schoolhouse education, that has affected an estimated 171 cardinal students.
–In 2024, South Asia was the astir affected region, with 128 cardinal students facing climate-related schoolhouse disruptions. East Asia and the Pacific portion followed, impacting an further 50 cardinal students.
It further updated that clime shocks are disrupting schoolhouse education, putting children’s learning and their futures astatine risk. The study includes events similar heatwaves, tropical cyclones, storms, floods and droughts successful 2024.
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