There are nearly one billion children living in "extremely high-risk" climate countries. Despite these staggering numbers, children remain almost entirely underrepresented in climate adaptation planning. Their specific needs- emotional resilience, educational continuity, and physical safety, are rarely measured or funded. Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) mention children in only about 1 in 3 plans, and even then, education is often an afterthought rather than a core pillar.

Data reveals the scale of the crisis, but fieldwork reveals the human cost. We track carbon parts-per-million with precision, yet we have almost no data on the "Resilience Quotient" of the generation that will have to live through the worst of the warming. This is a quiet emergency happening in the shadows of larger climate negotiations. The current "learning crisis" is being exacerbated by climate hazards that shutter schools for millions of students at a time.

Climate resilience must be learned early, or it will be paid for later in the form of failed states and displaced populations. A child-centered data revolution is required to move education from a "nice-to-have" to a core pillar of global climate security. Until we measure the impact of climate on the classroom as rigorously as we measure the impact on the economy, we will continue to fail the world's youngest and most vulnerable citizens.