New report and upcoming webinar

DECEMBER 2023
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As COP28 brings the world together at a critical moment for global transformative climate action – we need to be clear that children in poverty and their families contribute the least to the climate crisis, yet they bear the brunt of it.

The new Global Coalition to End Child Poverty report ([link removed]) highlights the climate crisis as a major social injustice, showing that:
* Children living in poverty are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of extreme weather events. They are more likely to suffer harm once a climate shock hits and have fewer coping mechanisms to deal with the consequences.
* Climate shocks heighten the probability of children living in multidimensional poverty by impacting children's rights to food, housing, education, health, water, and sanitation, among others.
* 6 out of 10 children living in multidimensional poverty are expected to experience at least one climate risk a year.
* 3 out of 10 children live in provinces with very high climate risks and a high concentration of children living in multidimensional poverty.


We call on Governments to:
* Meet commitments of the Paris Agreement and take ambitious and urgent action now to limit warming to a maximum of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
* Rapidly phase out the use and subsidy of fossil fuels and other activities that harm the environment, transitioning promptly towards sustainable and eco-friendly energy sources and implementing measures to ensure equitable access for the most disadvantaged families.
* All governments, whether in low-, middle- or high-income contexts, need to integrate child priorities into ongoing green finance reforms and prioritize investments to strengthen the climate resilience of social protection and disaster risk reduction.
* High-income countries should increase climate financing and support lower- and middle-income countries transition to clean development and manage unavoidable impacts, using specified metrics to ensure child-sensitive investment and to provide funding for losses and damages through new and additional climate finance.

Action is urgently needed now so that the climate crisis doesn’t plunge the most vulnerable further into the depths of poverty but rather protects children living in poverty and their families against these risks so that they can escape the scourge of poverty.

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We are very pleased to invite you to our upcoming webinar on 12 December at 8 a.m. (ET). Join us to explore the linkages between climate change and child poverty and discuss policy options to protect children living in poverty and their families against climate risks.

Speakers:
* Oliver Fiala, Senior Research Adviser, Save the Children UK
* Charlotte Bilo, Child Poverty and Social Protection Consultant, UNICEF
* Yukiko Yamada Morovic, Technical Director, Environmental Sustainability and Climate Action, World Vision International
* Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Economist, Development Data Group, World Bank

Moderators:
* David Lambert Tumwesigye, Co-chair, Global Coalition to End Child Poverty
* Sola Engilbertsdottir, Co-chair, Global Coalition to End Child Poverty

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