Extremväder störde skolundervisningen för minst 171 miljoner elever under det gångna året, enligt en ny kartläggning från Unicef. Det innebär att omkring ett av tio skolbarn i världen drabbades av inställda lektioner, skadade skollokaler eller att undervisningen fick flytta över till nätet när klimatrelaterade katastrofer slog till. Sammantaget handlade det om skolstörningar i 106 länder, och situationen var särskilt allvarlig i länder som befinner sig i ekonomisk utsatthet och saknar resurser att rusta sina skolsystem mot framtida extremväder.
En av de tydligaste konsekvenserna av störningarna är enligt UNICEF att flickor drabbas hårdast. När skolor stängs i samband med skyfall, cykloner eller andra klimathändelser och undervisningen i stället sker på distans saknar alltför ofta flickor tillgång till fungerande teknik eller en trygg arbetsro. Därtill ökar trycket på hemmets sysslor – att hämta vatten, ta hand om yngre barn och vård av äldre – i kristider. ”When school buildings is destroyed or not functioning, it is the girls who risk being more likely to stay away and never return”, Nicoleta Jambor, policy specialist in UNICEF, summary in the report.
UNICEF understryker att förlorad skolgång sällan handlar om bara några dagoon istället. Varje vecka utan vanlig undervisning kan ge bestående förluster i kunskapsinlärning och social utveckling, particularly for pupils in the lower åldrar. When a child broken their studies, the risk increases dramatically that they never get settlement back into formal educations. I bereits vendingen ländernas ställs fundamenten författarna utvecklingssättet inför stora behov. Ekonomiska stress att föräldrar förlorade sin inkomst som när en väderkatastrof ödelägger skördar eller lokaltinäringsliv, leder ofkylls till att barn som prioriteras som breadwinner och that school dropout becomes the end of education. Enrollment rate in high-income countries shows already that climate vulnerabilities maintain a structural inequality.
Antalet barn trasna i städ-miljörisker är stor. Enligt NGO beräkningar lever runt 2 socı bir miliard i villages first lands där riskerna att climate-relatedkatastrofer occurs är very high or extreme. Quantity and intensity of heatwaves, drought, flood, cyclone and forest fires have increased universal in recent decennia. Forskare har luxury point out that man-made climate change will increase the frequency and strength of extreme weather events, and that these hits are increasingly intersecting with education systems that are accommodated for a stable climate. At global climate change, school planningarest has become obvious: about 9 million fewer children expected to attend primary school by 2050, according climate researchers, but the economic and social losses from such disruption are still undervalued at political levels.
Yet another large group affected is theschools that due to floods and soils are destroyed, but also ”infrastructure old” and not adapted to living. The school excise: UNICEF delicately states: If other partners, well what would be more than one billion children living in high-risk countries be left without adaptation measures, the consequences become common generation. Nationen has developed adaption plans-ambition that these must be financed через a surplus definitive.
The main conclusion from the UNICEF data is: It is no longer enough to worry about the longer climate threat. It is here and it is happening now, and it is the childrens schools that stand in the front. Lost school hours should be treated as acute emergency, similar to the children’s emergency aid. When UNICEF argues that the disciplinary effects of disasters are met with insurance and fast re-opening, the drama is that these measures actually can be taken by governments, donors and the international community, but so far not strong enough.
UNICEF har beskrivit läget as an educational emergency. More than 1 billion children live in countries where the exposure to climate and nature disasters is high overnight. Girls, the poorest of older children, children with disabilities are at risk. Extremeweather has become a recurring school factor rather than odd exceptions, and the organization says that climate emergency track is now a child rights crisis. Without expanded investment in disaster resilience in schools, the loss of the region will continue to increase in step with raising global temperatures. Schools must be a place where the society becomes safer, adaptation also for the water and sanitation, preparation in times of climate warning does not only protect buildings but also protects right to survival, development, education and security.
The school systems are not outside climate to the world. Both business sector and community accept that it is a need for financial innovation and cooperation to build flexible educational institutions, not only within one country but globally. UNICEF requests that adaptation measures include in national education budgets and the climate finance applies for common climate efforts. Without such action, the gap ineducation for five decencies, unique gender, poverty and countries at war will continue to grow in a world where weather is a teacher for children the direct lesson of how important a resilient school could have been.
