1. Children and Climate change

2. Videos
Climate Change in Bangladesh: Who Will Pay? Flood Children of Holdibari

3. Children, disasters and climate change
Children are nearly 40% of world pop (half in Africa)
90% of these live in developing countries
Children as sector vulnerable to shocks and stresses
Timescales match medium term climate changes
Instrumental concerns about poverty targets
Intergenerational equity and poverty transfers 3

4. UNICEF UK Climate Change Report
2008

5. Vulnerability and protection perspectives
- In next decade, up to 175 million children per year likely to be affected by climate-related disasters
Exposure to malaria increases from 45% to 60% in next century
By 2010, 50 million 'environmentally displaced people', most of whom will be women and children.
(Save the Children 2008) 5

6. Agency and empowerment perspectives
Passive victims to agents of change
Participation in climate policy
Child-led community based adaptation and DRR
Risk communicators and managers
Climate friendly lifestyles
Carbon offsets (caution!) 6

7. Rights and justice perspectives
Child rights
Right to protection and safety
Right to survival and development
Best interests of the child
Right to participate
Intergenerational justice
Bequeathing a healthy planet
Constraining development opportunities 7

8. Impacts (disaster burden, health) Children’s Futures (Migration, Work)
Discussion:
What are the knowledge gaps for child-centred climate change responses?
Impacts (disaster burden, health)
Children’s Futures (Migration, Work)
Child Rights Frameworks
Perceptions and knowledge
Child-sensitive climate policy
Participation in adaptation and mitigation practice 8

9. Role of Children in Adapting to Climate Change
Further Reading
IDS In Focus 02.04
Role of Children in Adapting to Climate Change 
ELDIS / Children in a Changing Climate Key Issues Guide ‘Children, climate change and disasters’

10. How can children be at the centre of responses to climate change?
Can adaptation and social protection initiatives safeguard child rights in a changing climate
How can children be at the centre of responses to climate change?
How can the international climate change regime better respond to the crises faced by children in poor and fragile environments?