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.