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# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- understand the importance of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
- recognise the links between children’s rights and climate justice
- understand the impacts of climate change on children and young people and recognise the reasons why they are at the forefront of climate change campaigns
- appreciate the relationship between children and the environment
- understand the idea of ‘plastic childhoods’ and look at the ways that plastics are entangled in children’s lives.
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