The Climate Change Crisis is a Child Rights Crisis. It creates scarcity in access to safe water and food, impacts the health of children, increases children’s vulnerability to exploitation and abuse, and jeopardises their well-being, even threatening their survival. 

UNICEF calls for urgent action on four fronts: 

·      Place children at the centre of climate change policies, strategies, plans, and budgets and make them child-sensitive.

·      Empower children and young people to be environmental stewards and climate change agents, allowing them to realise their potential with full participation.

·      Enable children’s participation in the climate agenda, which is critical to ensure the future is fit for today’s children and today’s children are fit for the future.

·      Provide climate resilience services in health, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene, education, and protection so that children can survive, develop, and thrive.

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