Climate change adaptation

Despite three decades of pledges and some progress, the 30th UN climate summit takes place against a backdrop of catastrophic climate disasters that are forcing millions of children from their homes, disrupting their education, and causing hunger and threats to their health and safety.

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

Save the Children, in partnership with the National Institute of Social Action (INAS), has completed the registration of over 6,150 beneficiaries of the Productive Social Action Programme (PSAP) in Manica, Gaza, and Tete provinces. Conducted between July and August 2025 using the SIB-Mobile application, this activity aims to strengthen the climate resilience of vulnerable communities and ensure that assistance effectively reaches those most in need.

The historic climate change ruling at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) today is a landmark win for child campaigners, acknowledging the adverse impacts of climate change on child rights, and offering children renewed hope, Save the Children said.

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.

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.