Climate justice for the next generation

This free course, Climate justice for the nextgeneration, frames global warming and climate change in terms of social justice, human rights and intergenerational equality and emphasises how children and those least responsible for climate change are the ones who suffer its most significant consequences. The course looks at the impact climate change has on children’s rights and considers the role the next generation has as activists and campaigners within their changing environments. It concludes with a look at the contemporary work being done on ‘plastic childhoods’. Transcript

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 Children and young people’s rights
• 1 Children and young people’s rights
• 1.1 The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
• 1.2 The 3Ps of children’s rights
• 2 Climate change and children’s rights
• 2 Climate change and children’s rights
• 2.1 How are children’s rights affected by climate change?
• 3 Climate justice for the next generation
• 3 Climate justice for the next generation
• 3.1 Are young people particularly environmentally conscious?
• 4 Changing environments
• 4 Changing environments
• 4.1 Children and environmental connectedness
• 4.2 The concept of nexus
• 4.3 Taking environmental action
• 5 Plastic childhoods
• 5 Plastic childhoods
• 5.1 Thinking materially: children, nonhumans and Common Worlds
• 6 End-of-course quiz
• 6 End-of-course quiz
• Conclusion
• References
• Further reading
• Acknowledgements