ABSTRACT
Children and youth have been engaging extensively in climate action, including climate litigation against governments and companies. In this chapter, these climate cases are considered from a children's rights perspective, and particularly the perspective of child participation under CRC Article 12. This chapter considers how children participate in climate cases and the extent to which children's rights are relied upon in these cases. Using the Youth Climate Justice database, 81 cases are analysed to this end. It is concluded that climate cases are a new form of child participation in society, and that child participation has moved from (i) being something primarily aiming at benefitting children to (ii) a phenomenon that can benefit the human rights of all.
