[EQ] Climate Change and Children: A Human security challenge

de: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) - ruglucia@paho.org
para: EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org
fecha: 2 de abril de 2009 8:42
asunto: [EQ] Climate Change and Children: A Human security challenge

CLIMATE CHANGE AND CHILDREN:
A human security challenge

Policy Review Paper
The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre in Florence, Italy, 2009


Available online PDF [68p.] at: http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/climate_change.pdf


“…..The aim of this paper is to present the evidence and analysis necessary to effectively influence advocacy, policy and programme development. The ultimate goal is to provide the opportunity for children and young people to develop to their full potential, both by ensuring that their communities and homes are more capable of withstanding the impacts of climate change and by providing support and encouragement for their participation and contributions to the collective global response. Consideration for the rights and capacities of children within and across all levels of emerging climate policy is, therefore, an imperative….”

1. Climate Change, Human Security and the World’s Children
1.1 Climate change and human security
1.2 Climate change in developing countries
Climate change and the Millennium Development Goals
1.3 Why children?
1.4 Complexity and integration
Poverty, access to energy and sustainable development
The rural/urban divide
Age and gender
International and intergenerational justice
1.5 The road ahead

2. Impacts of Climate Change on Children
2.1 Existing vulnerabilities and environmental health risks
2.2 Key climate changes and their impacts
Rising sea levels and shrinking glaciers
Heavy precipitation, flooding and water security
Rising temperatures, droughts and desertification
Extreme weather events
Deforestation
Biodiversity
2.3 Implications for child health and well-being
Food security and undernutrition
Water security, diarrhoea and other waterborne diseases
Malaria and other vector-borne diseases
Death and illnesses from use of biomass fuels indoors
Impacts from the breakdown of economic and social structures

3. The Bases for Action: Rights, institutions and guiding principles
3.1 Human rights and the environment
3.2 Convention on the Rights of the Child
3.3 Climate change and the Millennium Development Goals
3.4 Agenda 21 and the Rio Conventions
3.5 Aarhus Convention
Article 6 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
3.6 Partnerships with faith-based organizations
3.7 Partnerships with youth organizations

4. Adaptation and Mitigation: Complementary strategies
4.1 Mitigation and adaptation
4.2 Participatory community development
4.3 Environmental education
4.4 Child and youth participation
4.5 The Nairobi Work Programme
4.6 Frameworks for action

5. Implications and Conclusions for Policy and Practice

Annexes
A - Case Study: Southern Sudan
B - Case Study: Morocco
C - References to the environment in the Convention on the Rights of the Child
D - An example of local adaptation in Kenya
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