ABSTRACT
The climate crisis is a children's rights crisis, as children stand at the frontline of climate impacts. There has been recognition of the importance of human rights in the climate crisis, as evidenced by numerous developments such as resolutions on the right to a healthy environment at the UN General Assembly and Human Rights Council, as well as General Comment No. 26 of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on the right of children to a healthy environment. The crisis has opened a transformative space in which children and youth are not merely rights-bearers but rights-makers, reshaping legal and political norms for everyone. Child/youth climate action has created a postpaternalist era, whereby children and youth are now key actors in the fight to mitigate the climate crisis. This book has chapters on the right to a healthy environment, the rights of children under the CRC, the rise of child/youth climate action, and examples of their action for many parts of the world, as well as climate litigation. These various facets of child/youth climate action point to a new era where children's participation no longer benefits just them, but rather human rights more broadly.
