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Climate Change Team
Reducing poverty and promoting social justice in a changing climate
Children in a Changing Climate
'Innovative action-research and knowledge-sharing for child-centred approaches to tackling climate change'
IDS is working with leading research and development organisations to secure children and your people a voice in preventing and adapting to climate change – from their communities to the UN.
IDS coordinates the research strand of the Children in a Changing Climate programme, which supports the wider consortia with innovative action-research. This strand, termed ccc-research, provides the evidence base that enables practitioners, policy-makers and children themselves to take action to adapt to climate change.
Current research projects include:
• Children communicating climate and disaster risks: investigating child-led disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation
• Child rights to climate adaptation
• The role of gender and religion in child-led disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation
• The role of participatory video in amplifying children’s voices on climate change
• Developing participatory tools to promote child and youth-centred disaster risk reduction
• Building a climate smart future: enabling UK children’s charities to effectively manage the risks and opportunities presented by climate change.
- IDS key contact: Fran Seballos
- Project dates: February 2008 - March 2010
- Project status: Closed
- Funder: Plan UK
Researchers
Partner Organisations
- Save the Children (STC)
- National Children's Bureau (NCB)
- RMIT University (RMIT)
- Risk Frontiers
- ActionAid
- Plan International
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- Footprint Friends
Related projects
- Building a Climate Smart Future (2009)
- Child Rights and Climate Change (2008)
- Climate and Disaster Governance (2008)
Selected News
- Missing: Children’s Perspectives in the Climate Change Debate
- Empowering children to tackle climate change
- Children Voice their Views at Bali Climate Conference (COP13)

