ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the work of the CRC Committee in relation to the topics examined in this book: environmental protection, climate change and sustainable development, including SDGs. It uses the individual report prepared for the Independent Expert on Human Rights and Environment as background for a discussion of environmental issues up to December 2013. The chapter discusses developments since then drawing upon this excellent summary. The GC referred to the need to recognize the challenges to children’s health by humanitarian emergencies, including large-scale displacements due to natural or man-made disasters. While not referring specifically to climate change here, the reference to “man-made disasters” could include climate-induced disasters. In June 2021 the CRC Committee decided to draft a GC on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change.
