Falling Short: Addressing the Climate Finance Gap for Children

On June 22 2023, members of the Children’s Environmental Rights Initiative (CERI) coalition released a new climate finance analysis.

Falling short: Addressing The Climate Finance Gap For Children analyses how “child responsive” projects funded by key multilateral climate funds are – over a 17 year period. The report concludes that children are being failed by climate funding commitments, despite bearing the brunt of the climate crisis.

“Child responsiveness” is defined as addressing the distinct and heightened risks children experience from the climate crisis, strengthening the resilience of child-critical social services, and empowering children as agents of change.

This is further evidence that despite children being highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, they are being neglected in international climate finance.

A collaboration between CERI members Plan International, Save the Children, and UNICEF, with funding from Capita, the study launch took place on the sidelines of the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact – a gathering of world leaders in Paris, France which aims to lay the groundwork for a new financial system suited to the common challenges of the 21st century including climate change.