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Each month we invite you to learn about the people, the progress, the precedent, and the history-making protection of children’s right to a safe climate powered by Our Children’s Trust.
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Meet Kelly Matheson! Kelly first joined our team in 2010 as a partner. Then, from 2015-2021, she served on our Board before joining the staff early last year as our Deputy Director for Global Climate Litigation.
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This is Kalālapa, one of the 14 youth plaintiffs in Navahine v. Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation, which is headed to trial in Honolulu in less than seven months!
In May, Kalālapa traveled to Geneva, Switzerland where she shared her experiences as a climate mobilizer with fellow youth climate activists and children’s rights professionals.
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If you’re paying attention to news about the climate crisis, you may have heard this figure: 1.5°C. In fact, it seems like everyone’s talking about it and how we need to limit our planet’s average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial temperatures.
But there’s a big problem: 1.5°C isn’t safe.
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Watch our three-minute animation to learn more, including what climate scientists say we need to do instead to end the climate crisis.
Then check out our series in partnership with Open Global Rights, “Overturning 1.5°C: Calling for the Science Turn in Rights-based Climate Litigation” exploring how the Paris Agreement’s target of 1.5°C leaves billions in the crosshairs of climate disaster.
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Stay tuned to learn more about a new amicus brief Our Children’s Trust will file with our global partners to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) in the next week!
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Then, on Monday December 11th at 10:00am PST / 1:00pm EST, join a global livestream to watch as Julia Olson, our Founder and Chief Legal Counsel, presents at the Article 3 Human Rights Day to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Tune in to hear Julia and a youth plaintiff announce an exciting new case that will have just been filed too!
Finally, on December 15th, join members of our staff for Powering Youth Climate Justice --- an intimate review of 2023, our latest news, and how we will power forward in 2024.
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Fighting climate change depends upon people around the world leading all sorts of actions – from protest to legislation to litigation. Our Children’s Trust is powered by hundreds of communities and global partners across the climate movement.
Together with Oxfam, we work to secure and protect the rights of young people around the planet.
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This giving season we celebrate our children and trust in democracy. In honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Sunday, December 10th, we will launch a two-day $75,000 challenge grant.
Our legal strategy has always focused on holding governments accountable for the climate crisis. When we first began this work, there was not a single human rights lawsuit on behalf of children filed anywhere. Today there are 50+ cases that have been filed against almost as many countries around the world, as youth rise to hold their governments accountable to protecting their human rights.
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