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.