Transcript Children and Climate change Part 2

Children and Climate change
Videos
Climate Change in Bangladesh: Who Will Pay?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3wAS5qgncA
Flood Children of Holdibari
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJFVqCoA4yA
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
UNICEF UK Climate Change Report
2008
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)
Agency and empowerment perspectives
• Passive victims to agents of change
• Participation in climate policy
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Child-led community based adaptation and DRR
Risk communicators and managers
Climate friendly lifestyles
Carbon offsets (caution!)
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
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
Further Reading
IDS In Focus 02.04
Role of Children in Adapting to Climate Change
http://www.ids.ac.uk/climatechangeadaptation
ELDIS / Children in a Changing Climate Key Issues
Guide
‘Children, climate change and disasters’
http://tinyurl.com/CCCandD
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?