Children, Youth and Climate action – enhancing the joint efforts to respect and promote the rights of children and young people

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Children, Youth and Climate action – enhancing the joint efforts to respect and promote the rights of children and young people

Date: 8 December 2023
Time: 13.00 – 14.00 h
Location: Bulgarian Pavilion at COP28

Annotation
To recognize the role of champion governments and signatories of the Declaration on Children, Youth and Climate Action in promoting the fulfillment of children’s inalienable right to a healthy environment, and to take steps to enshrine these rights in the implementation of the Paris Agreement, in EU Member States’ national climate adaptation and mitigation measures, Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), and long-term greenhouse gas emissions development strategies.

UNICEF will moderate a discussion among the EU and ECA countries on the UNICEF Declaration on Children, Youth and Climate Action on commitments and priorities at national and regional level.

Speakers:

Julian Popov, Minister of Environment and Water, Bulgaria
Teresa Ribera Rodriguez, Minister of Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Spain
Ann Skelton, Chair of UN Committee of the Rights of the Child
Zakia Khattabi, Minister for Climate, Environment, Sustainable Development and Green Deal, Belgium
Special guests: Bulgarian Youth Delegates to the UN

Moderator:
Kitty van der Heijden, Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF

Host of the event:
Ministry of Environment and Water