Children in a changing climate: how child-centered approaches can build resilience and overcome multiple barriers to adaptation

Climate change is a key issue for children's rights, and, as impacts intensify, rights will become more difficult to attain. Children are highly vulnerable to climate change and have the most to lose in a climate changed world. This chapter focuses on the impacts of climate change on children in the Global South, highlighting their general vulnerabilities and examining how climate change will exacerbate the multiple layers of discrimination that many children suffer. The chapter argues that integrating child-centred climate risk reduction and resilience building into programs and processes would make a significant contribution to helping children claim their rights in a climate changed world.