Webinar on Climate Finance and Child Rights

Welcome to the Safety Nets & Resilient Families priority learning series with a focus on Climate Crisis and Child Rights.

This webinar will provide a peer learning opportunity to better understand what child-centred climate finance is about and the challenges around establishing such climate finance mechanisms. You will get a chance to learn about what Save the Children’s public investment in children’s common approach offers and what UNCRC General Comment No. 26 (2023) says about States’ obligations to guarantee the rights of the child in the context of climate change. Hear from experiences from Zambia, Malawi and others about Child friendly information and Child and civil society-led advocacy on public budgeting in a changing climate.

This webinar is open to SC staff and partner organizations especially from the Sida-funded Global Civil Society Strengthening Program and is being co-hosted by How to Child Rights Series which will support professional interpretation into English, French and Spanish.

 Key resource links :

• Falling short: Addressing the climate finance gap for children 

• Submission on making the new climate finance goal child-responsive

•  Common approach on Public investment in Children

• General Comment #26 on child Rights and the Environment with special focus on Climate change. 

Moderator

• Ludmila Santa Cruz, Advocacy and Public Investment in Children, SC, Bolivia

Speakers

• Luis Pedernera, Vicepresident of Committee on the Rights of the Child, Leader of the regional consultation in Latin America and the Caribbean

• Shruti Agarwal, Senior Adviser: Climate Change and Sustainable Economies, SC Office UK

• Goodbye Chinyama, SC Office Zambia;

• Hugh Bagnall-Oakeley, Senior Hunger Policy and Research Adviser, Policy Advocacy and Campaigns Division.

• Laure Abado, Senior thematic advisor- Child rights, climate change and healthy environment. SC Sweden/SCI