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The climate crisis is a human rights crisis as health, homes, education, and numerous other areas of human life are affected. In this work, the authors examine how the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child applies to the climate crisis and argue that children and youth are rights-makers, reshaping legal and political norms for everyone. The authors also analyse ways in which children/youth are leading the fight against climate change with rights advocacy. Their climate action at national level, in international forums, and in the courts is examined. It is concluded that children/youth have had distinct impacts across these different arenas in which human rights are shaped. Participation rights for children/youth, then, are bringing tangible change not just for themselves, but for everyone. The book will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers working in human rights law, children’s rights, environmental law, childhood studies and social policy. It will also likely benefit climate advocates, litigators, and others as it outlines doctrinal footholds and procedural innovations in the area.

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Aoife Daly is Professor of Law at University College Cork and specialises in human rights law. In 2023, she secured a European Research Council Consolidator Grant for her project Youth Climate Justice, to carry out a large-scale research study (2023–2028) on child/youth climate justice - inside and outside the courts - around the world. The project involves an interdisciplinary team working with children, youth, and others to analyse their experiences of youth climate action in climate cases, at COP, and in their communities. Florencia Paz Landeira is a postdoctoral researcher with the Youth Climate Justice project at University College Cork. Florencia holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the National University of San Martín, Argentina. Her academic research and teaching focus on childhood policies and children’s rights within the context of the climate crisis and situated socio-environmental conflicts. Liesl Muller is a PhD researcher with the Youth Climate Justice project at University College Cork. She holds an LLM from the University of the Witwatersrand and an LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the University of Pretoria, UP. She is an attorney of the High Court of South Africa practising at the Centre for Child Law, UP, where she represents children and youth in strategic litigation on social justice issues.

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