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In Africa, frequent extreme climate events such as floods and droughts are disrupting education and damaging schooling systems. A new report by UNICEF and Dalberg Advisors, ‘Protecting Children’s Learning Futures: Quantifying Climate-Related Loss and Damage in Eastern and Southern Africa’, offers the first regional estimates of economic and non-economic losses and damage caused to education systems by climate change.
According to the analysis, climate-related disruptions affected an estimated 130 million children, contributing to USD 1.3 billion in direct damage to schooling infrastructure and up to USD 140 billion in projected lifetime income losses. Despite the scale of impact, education receives less than 1.5% of global climate finance, repeatedly exposing education systems to climate shocks.
The findings underscore the need to strengthen climate-resilient education systems and mobilize finance to address loss and damage.