Tagged: climate change

21st Century Ger: Innovation experts set to reinvent traditional Mongolian homes

Children's rights

By Mungunkhishig Batbaatar

Ulaanbaatar – home to half of Mongolia’s three million population – has the most toxic air in the world during winter. The biggest source of air pollution comes from coal-burning stoves in the “ger district which makes up 60 percent of Ulaanbaatar’s population. “Ger” districts consist of self-built detached houses and… Read more →←

The Last Islanders: rising sea levels in Papua New Guinea

Education Water and sanitation

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“We can see it with our own eyes, I’m afraid,” said Maria, 13. “The sea is eating the ground.” Maria lives on a remote atoll known as the Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea and for over twenty years the islanders have been fighting a battle against the rising sea levels. The islanders have been building seawalls and planting… Read more →←
Children leap into a lagoon in Tarawa, the capital.

A message from Samoa: “I’m in beautiful Samoa. It’s terrifying.”

Child protection

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A message from Samoa by Karen Allen, UNICEF Pacific Representative I’m in beautiful Samoa. It’s terrifying Greetings from Samoa in the Pacific, the gracious host of a major global conference of small island states. To visit this beautiful nation is wonderful, but also terrifying. We, the big consumers of coal, oil and gas… Read more →←
Climate Change

Photos: Climate change – an interview with Mia Urbano

Emergencies

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Welcome to the first blog by UNICEF’s regional office for East Asia and the Pacific. The purpose of our blog is to highlight different development issues facing the region’s children, as well as taking a more in-depth look at how they are being tackled beyond the ubiquitous human interest story you have all come to know and love. We… Read more →←

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