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16 Health & Hum. Rts. J. 19 (2014)
Climate Change, Children's Rights, and the Pursuit of Intergenerational Climate Justice

handle is hein.journals/harhrj16 and id is 21 raw text is: Health and Human Rights Journa Climate Change, Children's Rights, and the Pursuit of Intergenerational Climate Justice ELIZABETH D. GIBBONS Abstract Frequently forgotten in the global discussions and agreements on climate change are chil- dren and young people, who both disproportionately suffer the consequences of a rapidly changing climate, yet also offer innovative solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (cli- mate change mitigation) and adapt to climate change. Existing evidence is presented of the disproportionately harmful impact of climate-induced changes in precipitation and extreme weather events on today's children, especially in the Global South. This paper examines the existing global climate change agreements under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change for evidence of attention to children and intergenerational climate justice, and sug- gests the almost universally ratified Convention on the Rights of the Child be leveraged to advance intergenerational climate justice. ELIZABETH D. GIBBONS is a Senior Fellow and Visiting Scientist at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. Please address correspondence to the author, Elizabeth D. Gibbons. Email: egibbons@hsph.harvard.edu. Competing interests: None declared. Copyright: K 2014 Gibbons. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. JUNE 2014 NUMBER 1 VOLUME 16 Health and Human Rights Journal 19

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