Category Archives: Climate Change

Climate change – an interview with Mia Urbano, author of Indonesian Study; Part 2

By Sarai Cosgrove, Published: November 15, 2011
What else did the study tell you? MU: I guess the most significant finding is how climate change is likely to aggravate malnutrition and food security. In Indonesia, malnutrition is largely ascribed to compromised infant feeding practices, and there was ready evidence that, with crop failure and freak weather events, people were moving, they were [...]
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Climate change – an interview with Mia Urbano, author of Indonesian Study; Part 1

By Sarai Cosgrove, Published: November 15, 2011
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 [...]
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Water rationing continues in Tuvalu

By UNICEF NZ, Published: October 20, 2011
When you live in a place that is facing severe water shortages and your family has only 40 litres of rationed water per day …when you live in a place where trees, crops and grass are all turning brown or withering away from the blistering heat… you have to ask the question – “What’s going [...]
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Struggling to survive – Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa

By UNICEF NZ, Published: July 14, 2011
You have probably been grizzling a lot over the past year watching your grocery bill creeping up and up each week. With food prices noticeably increasing, we walk away from the supermarket with less and less each time. It sometimes feels like we don’t have a lot to come and go on, that is until [...]
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Children are our future

By UNICEF NZ, Published: December 9, 2009
This is a post by Sue Avison, Communications Intern at UNICEF NZ. UNICEF and Enviro-Challenge worked with five young Kiwis to get them to the UNICEF Children’s Climate Forum in Copenhagen, which ended last week. The Kiwi teens were among 160 other delegates from 44 countries. The Forum took place in the lead-up up to [...]
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