SINGAPORE, June 16 (Reuters) - Almost all of the world's children are exposed to at least one climate hazard, with as many as 1.8 ⁠billion put in danger by droughts and 1.2 billion by extreme heat, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said in a report on ⁠Tuesday.

UNICEF said children were "disproportionately affected" by a range of intensifying climate-related risks and governments urgently needed to invest ⁠in infrastructure, adaptation and disaster management capabilities ‌to reduce their exposure.

Here are some of the details of UNICEF's Children's Climate Risk Report.

• The report looked at a broad range of climate hazards, as well as the impact of air pollution and the risks of vector-borne diseases like malaria. It also factored in data about access to water, ‌healthcare and social services across the world.

• As many as 1.1 billion children ​globally were ‌exposed to at least three overlapping climate risks, ‌the report said, warning of a "dangerous cascade of multiple, overlapping hazards" that could overwhelm governments and social services.

• "It's not just ⁠the exposure to the single hazards like floods or ‌droughts or heat waves and ⁠extreme heat that children face, but ​it is the exposure to multiple hazards," said ‌Rohini Sampoornam Swaminathan, UNICEF statistics manager and one of the authors of the report.

• As many as 662 million children were at risk from tropical storms, 337 million from riverine floods and ​33 million from coastal floods, with 1 billion children also ‌exposed ‌to malaria, mostly in Africa.

• In 2024, 242 million children in 85 countries saw their schooling disrupted ‌by climate hazards.

• UNICEF identified ​Somalia, Madagascar, Myanmar, Cambodia and Pakistan as the most vulnerable countries.

• The highest numbers of drought-exposed children live in agriculture-dependent economies like Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Tanzania.

• Children ⁠in landlocked nations were also facing "disproportionate" risks of drought, desertification, heat stress ‌and flash floods, with water stress set to intensify in countries like Botswana and Burkina Faso.

(Reporting ​by David Stanway; Editing by Jamie Freed)