Blog Post | The Climate Crisis, Climate Justice and Child Protection during the 2021 Annual Meeting

Initiating the dialogue; Child Protection Alliance annual meeting

“Climate action is not sufficiently child sensitive, or child informed, and rarely integrates child protection risks.”

“There is a huge, timely opportunity for the child protection sector to influence evolving climate agendas -in particular anticipatory action- to reduce the impacts of climate change on children and especially girls.”

“Child protection agendas must be sufficiently adapted for the changing environment.”

These were some of the key take home messages highlighted by Plan International, at the climate change specialist session of the Child Protection Alliance’s annual meeting.  

As highlighted by IFRC’s 2020 policy brief on child protection and climate: “We need to do better.”1