Falling Short: Addressing the climate finance gap for children
This report provides the first-ever child-focused review of international climate finance, focusing on key multilateral climate funds. The report assessed 591 projects to analyse their child-responsiveness and the findings are stark. Only 2.4% of climate finance from key multilateral climate funds was found to support projects incorporating child-responsive activities.
The findings suggest that efforts to respond to the distinct and heightened needs and perspectives of children in international climate finance flows remain nascent. The report also recommends actions that must be taken by Multilateral Climate Funds, Governments, Multilateral Development Banks and other key actors to ensure an increase and acceleration in climate finance that is child-responsive.
