Climate Change, Child Rights and Education: Challenges and Pathways Towards Achieving SDGs

Children play a central role in shaping the future of society, yet they remain among the most vulnerable to crises outside their control. Recent reports highlight how global shocks, from health emergencies to environmental hazards, have disproportionately undermined children’s well-being and opportunities (UNICEF, 2021; World Bank, 2022). The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted in 2015, seek to address these overlapping challenges by promoting equality, human rights, and climate action as part of a unified development agenda (United Nations, 2015). Within this framework, children occupy a unique intersection where their rights to education, protection, and development are continually threatened by climate unpredictability and weak policy enforcement (UNCRC, 1989; Ministry of Education, 2020).