Simon Weedy reports for Child in the City about COP26, its crucial message that ‘the climate crisis is a child rights crisis’, and UNICEF's take on it.
World leaders highlighted this message during the conference in Glasgow, but their arguments focused on the impact of the crisis on children, rather than direct solutions and actions. What is more, UNICEF recently released an analysis which revealed that two-thirds of the countries that signed the Paris Agreement ‘do not address the needs and priorities of children'.
Another study by UNICEF revealed that '99 per cent of the world’s 2.2 billion children are exposed to at least one environmental threat, including heatwaves, cyclones, flooding, drought, vector-borne diseases, air pollution and lead poisoning.’
UNICEF is urging world governments to take these key actions:
- Increase financial support and investment in the initiatives, which will help minimise climate change-related risks faced by primarily poor countries and their children. These resources should be put towards ensuring access to safe water, health services and education.
- Cutting greenhouse gas emissions faster and more efficiently. ‘UNICEF is urging countries to cut their emissions by at least 45 per cent (compared to 2010 levels) by 2030 to keep warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius.’
- Include young people in all climate negotiations and decisions as the future they will inherit is at stake.
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