Climate finance for children
in Latin America and the Caribbean
Highlights
In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), about 96.8 per cent of all the climate funds are not responding to children’s needs, according to the groundbreaking brief paper released by Plan International, Save the Children and UNICEF as members of the Children’s Environmental Rights Initiative (CERI). These commitments are inadequate and ignore children's unique needs in the face of the climate crisis, including their need for targeted adaptation and protection from loss and damage.
This Advocacy Brief brings attention to the critical lack of climate finance for children in the LAC region and call for urgent action to:
- Scale up child and gender responsive climate finance.
- Bolster child-responsive approaches in climate finance policies, strategies, plans and guidance.
- Increase child-responsive climate finance capacity-building, coordination, and partnerships.
This document is intended to be useful for public policy decision-makers, practitioners, counterparts, UNICEF partners, and any relevant actor who has the potential to advocate for children’s rights in the context of climate change.
