COP30 Policy Brief: Protecting children’s rights in the face of the climate crisis (2025)

This briefing contains key recommendations for COP30. In particular, the briefing underscores the need for a meaningful follow-up to the Expert Dialogue on Children and Climate Change that took place at Bonn in June 2024 and the integration of child-sensitive, age-disaggregated and child-focused indicators under the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) UAE-Belém work programme. For the sake of the world’s 2.4 billion children and future generations, it is essential to maintain focus and momentum, the sharing of good practices and capacity building of Parties on the integration of children’s distinct needs, perspectives, and their human rights in climate policies, actions, and finance.