A BETTER future for children is still in reach. If we act now.
Around the world, children are experiencing disproportionate impacts of climate change.
Storms are destroying homes. Floods are displacing families and interrupting education. Record-smashing heat is harming children’s health and droughts are causing food and nutritional insecurity that stunt children’s growth.
Children are uniquely vulnerable to pollution, deadly diseases and extreme weather, even before they take their first breath.
Bold and accelerated action must be taken now to prevent children from experiencing the worst effects of the climate crisis.
Governments and businesses must step up their ambition and take action to protect children and their futures.
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This means putting children’s needs at the heart of all decisions, accelerating financing for climate action and delivering existing fossil fuel commitments.
Putting child rights in climate plans.
Unicef is calling for leaders to deliver three important actions for children at COP30:
Protect children and the essential services they rely on by:
Delivering a follow-up mandate to the Expert Dialogue on Children and Climate Change.
Significantly increasing climate finance that protects children from climate-related risks.
Reduce emissions and fulfil ambitious international sustainability and climate change agreements with urgency by:
Accelerating efforts to dramatically reduce emissions, based on the best available science.
Implementing and revising new NDCs 3.0 to ensure they are child sensitive and respond to the disproportionate impacts of climate change on children.
Empower children and young people to meaningfully participate and influence climate decision-making by:
Ensuring that children and young people are included as agents of change and key stakeholders in climate decision-making processes at all levels.
Including children and young people as observers and negotiators in countries' delegations and negotiating teams at COP30.