ABSTRACT
This chapter describes some of the multiple ways in which climate change disproportionately affects children and their rights. It reviews the policy landscape and the opportunities presented by the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda in particular to facilitate greater coherence between States' obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the one hand, and their efforts to tackle climate change on the other. While the UN Human Rights Council has emphasised that children are among the most vulnerable to climate change. The interface between child rights and climate change remains one of the least understood and least represented in the work of global, regional and national actors and advocates concerned with child rights. Conversely, or perhaps reflecting this, children's rights have been largely overlooked in international negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and in the multitude of regional and national policies and processes that derive from these more broadly.
