Wheat growing in a field in Western Ukraine.

World Vision at COP29

The global UN Climate Conference, COP29, taking place November 11 – 22, will bring together heads of state and government officials, UN agencies, corporations, civil society and young people to negotiate and coordinate global climate action.
 
With the overwhelming and often dramatic effects of the climate crisis on full display, there is growing concern that commitments made by governments, industry, and others are softening in the face of other global challenges. 
 

Will COP29 get us back on track?

From fighting for a child’s right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment; to the impact of climate change on hunger and malnutrition; promoting nature-based agricultural solutions that restore arable land, and discussing the importance of faith-based communities to climate crisis responses, World Vision will ask the policy makers so that children and youth are at the centre of the debate and the outcomes of COP29.
World Vision's call to action to ensure children's rights to a healthy, safe and sustainable future are as follows: 
 
  • Ambitious climate action: keep the 1.5 degrees ambition alive by accelerating mitigation efforts and greenhouse gas reduction.

  • Children’s and young people’s participation as agents of change:  prioritise child-centred approaches and ensure children and young people’s meaningful participation – with special emphasis on the most vulnerable children, women, and indigenous community members.

  • Enhance resilience and climate change adaptation: ensure sustainable and climate resilient agrifood systems.

  • Climate finance: ensure climate finance is adequate, accessible, inclusive and transparent, including technology transfer and capacity building.

  • Loss and damage: Loss and damage caused by the climate crisis is one of the greatest intergenerational injustices that children face today. Ensure timely response with climate reparations for children in instances beyond adaptive capacity of communities.

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"Rising storms – climate change effects exacerbating conflict and hunger crisis" 

 

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