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By: Save the Childrens Resource Centre
Last updated: 2025-05-09T14:13:37
The climate and environmental crisis is a children’s rights crisis! What does this mean in reality? What are we doing about it? And what can we do more, with children, to be agents of change to ensure that children enjoy all their rights including their right to a clear, healthy and sustainable environment in all contexts?

This page has been created to collect publications, including research, guidance, tools, case studies, policy documents, as well as webinar recordings and other resources that contribute to clarifying the nexus between children’s rights, healthy environment and a safe climate, with focus on the implementation of the UNCRC, UNCRC General Comment 26, the SDGs, the ACRWC and other relevant legal and policy frameworks that protect children’s rights in the context of climate and environmental degradation.




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If you wish to learn more, you can check the following relevant links:
🔗Child Rights Connect’s webpage,
🔗CERI coalition’s webpage
🔗Child Rights Environment’s webpage
🔗How to Child Right series
🔗Ciel’s webpage
🔗CRIN‘s webpage
🔗Child Rights coalition Asia‘s webpage
For upcoming webinars linked to the Human Right to a Healthy Environment, check this table.
General Comment 26
1 resource
Advancing Children’s Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment: Guidance on General Comment No.262025 · How to Child Rights series
This guidance answers the question: How can civil society support the implementation of General Comment No.26?In 2023, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child launched General... View Full Abstract
PDF (1.7 MiB)
State Accountability
13 resources
L’intégration des aspects environnement et changement climatique dans le suivi de la mise en œuvre de la charte africaine des droits et du bien-être de l’enfant2024 · Save the Children International
D’août 2021 à novembre 2022, deux rapports complémentaires sur la CADBE ont été élaborés d’une part par la société civile sous la conduite du Forum des ONG de Côte d’Ivoire, et... View Full Abstract
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Webinar on Climate & Accountable Services for Children2024 · Save the Children
Welcome to the Safety Nets &amp; Resilient Families and CRESJ priority learning series. This webinar, part of our June focus on the Climate Crisis and Child Rights, explores the... View Full Abstract
Video
Leadership des enfants dans l’élaboration du rapport complémentaire sur la mise en œuvre de la CADBE, cas de la Côte d’Ivoire2024 · Save the Children International
L&#8217;étude de cas intitulée &#8220;Leadership des enfants dans l’élaboration du rapport complémentaire sur la mise en œuvre de la CADBE, cas de la Côte d’Ivoire “ se concentre... View Full Abstract
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How to Support Child-Led Reporting to the United Nations on Climate Change and the Environment: Albania Case Study2024 · How to Child Rights series
The child-led group Voice 16+ has been operating in Albania since 2000 with support from Save the Children and, during 2021 and 2022, members of this group researched and wrote a... View Full Abstract
PDF (3.9 MiB)
Peer Exchange Webinar on Environment/Climate action with children through UN Human Rights mechanisms- 23 November 20242024 · How to Child Rights series
This session will draw inspiration from the experiences of girls,  boys, and CSO representatives  from Albania and from countries involved in the Sida funded Save the Children’s... View Full Abstract
PDF (118.7 KiB)
Peer Exchange webinar on Environment and Climate Action with Children Through the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child- 10 December 20242024 · How to Child Rights series
The overall aim of the webinar is to strengthen  integration of environment including climate change issues  of relevance to to child rights and child participation in the... View Full Abstract
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Thematic launch webinar 1: How to Advance Children’s Rights to a Healthy Environmenthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx6YJIvv5yg&feature=youtu.be
Reporting and follow-up to recommendations on  Climate/Environmenthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaTLUniO9sQ&list=PL-QMVR1hIPbbvO8lfVfNR1bnsLVUeOjRa&index=21
How to Child Rights: Accountability to Children’s Rights to a Healthy Environment: What can we learn from CSO reporting to UN and AU human rights review processes​2023 · How to Child Rights series
This page compiles all the resources related to the  Peer Exchange Session titled “Accountability to Children’s Rights to a healthy environment: What can we learn from CSO... View Full Abstract
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What is General Comment 26 and why is it important2023 · Save the Children International
Save the Children and partners particularly from the Sida Civil Society programme (2022-2026) join to discuss what the new General Comment #26 of the UN Committee on the rights of... View Full Abstract
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Children’s Rights and the Environment: Guidance on the reporting to the Committee of the Rights of the Child2020 · CERI, Children's Environmental Rights Initiative
This tool seeks to provide a guide to reporting on children’s rights as they relate to environmental issues. It aims to ensure that the rights and interests of children rights are... View Full Abstract
PDF (1.7 MiB)
How to Advocate for Children’s Rights in the Climate Crisis through the Universal Periodic Review: A case study from Australia2022 · How to Child Rights series
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a five-yearly peer review process through which UN member states can engage with each other’s human rights records and make recommendations... View Full Abstract
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How to Support the Implementation of United Nations Resolution “Realising Children’s Rights through a Healthy Environment”2022 · How to Child Rights series
Human Rights Council resolution on children’s rights and the environment is a commitment made by governments around the world about the relationship between child rights and a... View Full Abstract
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Climate Finance and Child Rights
2 resources
Webinar on Climate Finance and Child Rights2024
Welcome to the Safety Nets &amp; Resilient Families priority learning series with a focus on Climate Crisis and Child Rights.This webinar will provide a peer learning opportunity... View Full Abstract
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Webinar on Loss and Damage and Child Rights
This webinar is everything you’ve always wanted to know about loss and damage, the newly established fund and what it means for children&#8217;s rights!  The webinar will start... View Full Abstract
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Right to Education
 resource
Right to Protection
1 resource
Webinar on Protecting Children from Harm in the Climate Crisis: Strategies for action through adaptive programming, policy & advocacy2024 · Save the Children
 This webinar was initiated jointly by Save the Children Climate Change and Child Protection team as part of the Safety Nets &amp; Resilient Families priority learning series. In... View Full Abstract
PDF (3.8 MiB)
Climate Justice
1 resource
Webinar on Loss and Damage and Child Rights
This webinar is everything you’ve always wanted to know about loss and damage, the newly established fund and what it means for children&#8217;s rights!  The webinar will start... View Full Abstract
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Programming on Child Rights and the Environment
1 resource
Children’s Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment- Capacity Statement on Child Rights Governance and the Environment2025 · Save the Children
This capacity statement sets out Save the Children’s commitment to advancing children’s rights amidst global environmental challenges, highlighting our expertise, achievements, and... View Full Abstract
PDF (12.9 MiB)