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Climate Change

THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS A CHILD RIGHTS CRISIS

The world is experiencing wide-scale destructive activities – like the use of fossil fuels and deforestation. These events are contributing to climate change and leading to extreme weather events. Droughts, floods, and wildfires are threatening the future for children. Their homes and schools are being destroyed. They are growing up in unhealthy environments. Their access to food is at risk. The vast majority of today’s global crises are driven by or exacerbated by climate change.

Children aren’t driving this crisis, but they are and will be most affected by its devastation.

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Indigenous children in Canada are among those most affected by the climate crisis due to the legacy of colonialism, underfunding, and geographic location. Flooding, forest fires, ice melts, severe rainfall and extreme heat are an increasing threat to their safety and relationship to the land.

“…I NOTICE THAT WE BARELY HAVE ANY ANIMALS HERE NOW … SUCH AS DEER … AND BARELY ANY FISH IN THE WATER…”

-Avery Meeks, Kenora Chiefs Advisory Youth Council Representative, Shoal Lake #40

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about how climate change affects children.

A FAIRER, GREENER WORLD IS POSSIBLE, IF WE ACT NOW

If we take ambitious and urgent action now to limit global warming to 1.5°C, children born in the last year will be significantly less exposed to extreme weather events over their lifetime.


“We will do our part, raising awareness among our peers, and close adults so that they recognize the problem and become aware of it, because alone we will not be able to achieve it. We need joint work and real support from adults, even more so [from] the decision makers, because today we are at risk […] and without action we will not have tomorrow.”

-Laura*, 16, from Chile, Save the Children’s Born into a Climate Crisis report

*Name has been changed.


Save the Children will stand side by side with children campaigning for world leaders to protect the planet and their future through Generation Hope – our global campaign for and with children. We are calling for urgent action on climate and inequality to ensure a safe, healthy and happy future for children.

To limit the impact of climate change on the lives of millions of children, Save the Children is calling on governments and the international community to:

  • Limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, including by rapidly phasing out fossil fuels and simultaneously taking measures that can lift children out of poverty.
  • Increase climate financing to help children and communities adapt to the climate crisis.
  • Put children’s voices, demands and rights at the center of climate commitments.
  • Fund child services and financial safety nets to minimize the impact that climate shocks have on the most marginalized children.

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