Climate change adaptation

Over 60 children from 16 African countries are urging their heads of state at the Africa Climate Summit this week to consider their views and experiences in shaping climate policies, with children in most of the continent found to be at high or extremely high risk of the impacts of climate change.

Hear how communities in Southern Sri Lanka are standing strong against disasters

Across the region countries including China, Pakistan, Thailand, Laos and the Philippines are experiencing storms and earlier-than-usual monsoon seasons partly brought about by climate change.

Save the Children has handed over its coastal resilience project to 12 communities in Pujehun and Bonthe. The project improved livelihoods, protected mangroves, and empowered locals through VSLAs, eco-friendly ovens, and training. Communities now lead the way forward.

Almost a third of today’s five-year-olds – about 38 million children – will be spared a lifetime’s “unprecedented” exposure to extreme heat if the world meets the 1.5°C warming target by 2100, Save the Children said.

Families in Vanuatu are adopting climate-smart agricultural techniques such as growing climate resistant crops to prepare for future climate-driven disasters in the wake of devastating Tropical Cyclone Lola 18 months ago.

Climate resilient classrooms in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu – the first to be built by Save the Children – will get a fundraising boost from an epic 4,000km, 90-day journey across New Zealand by two celebrity adventurers.

As COP29 is coming to an end, Save the Children and child campaigners in Baku remind world leaders that children’s rights must be at the centre of negotiations over the climate finance goal.