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Special focus session – Climate Change and Children
5 September 2024
Putting children at the heart of climate action and galvanizing global solutions
| 5 September 2024, 10 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time | |
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| Agenda | EN |
| Welcome and introduction H.E. Mr. José Alfonso Blanco Conde, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dominican Republic, Vice-President of the UNICEF Executive Board | |
| Opening remarks Ms. Catherine M. Russell, Executive Director of UNICEF | EN |
| Speakers H.E. Mr. Max Andonirina Fontaine, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Madagascar H.E. Mr. Carlos A. Batista, Vice-Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Dominican Republic Ms. Adia Daniel, Climate Activist, Caribbean Mr. Francisco Vera, UNICEF Youth Advocate for Latin America | |
| Concept note | EN |
| UN Web TV footage of the special focus session | EN |
| Resources | |
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| UNICEF Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan 2023–2030 | EN |
| Falling Short: Addressing the Climate Finance Gap for Children, Children’s Environmental Rights Initiative (CERI) coalition report, 2023 | EN |
| A threat to progress: Confronting the effects of climate change on child health and well-being, UNICEF, 2024 | EN |
| General comment No. 26 (2023) – “UN Committee on the Rights of the Child calls on states to take action in first guidance on children’s rights and the environment, with a focus on climate change” (UNICEF press release) | EN |
| UNICEF Declaration on children, youth and climate action | EN |
| UNICEF Summary note, recommendations and next steps after the UNFCCC Climate Talks in Bonn | EN |