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The Impact of Climate Change on Education By World Bank
Key findings: Climate change intensifies extreme weather, disrupting schooling and causing learning losses.
From 2005-2024, schools closed during 75% of extreme weather events, impacting over 5 million people.
Rising temperatures and food insecurity also negatively affect learning outcomes and school enrollment.
Climate events particularly harm girls in low-income countries, preventing at least 4 million from completing their education.
Adaptation Approaches:
Climate Resilient Education Management: Invest in early warning systems, e.g., Indonesia’s InaRISK app
School Infrastructure Resilience: Strengthen buildings, e.g., Rwanda’s retaining walls project.
Classroom Temperature Management: Implement bioclimatic designs, e.g., Kenya’s Green Economy Strategy.
Learning Continuity: Keep schools open and enhance remote learning, e.g., Ghana’s nearly 100% re-enrollment post-COVID-19.
 
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report, 2024 Report by five UN agencies (FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP, WHO)
The report focuses on financing to end hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition. It introduces a new definition for financing food security and nutrition, encompassing public and private, domestic and foreign resources aimed at availability, access, utilization, stability of nutritious foods, and resilience of agri-food systems.
Current Gaps in Financing: Public spending on agriculture is very low in low-income and lower-middle-income countries. Less than a quarter of official development assistance is directed towards food security and nutrition.
Status of Food Security and Nutrition:  The world is off track to achieve SDG 2 (Zero Hunger). In 2023, 1 in 11 people faced hunger, with 713-757 million undernourished. 28.9% of the global population experienced moderate or severe food insecurity