Our Letter to World Leaders: COP26

UNICEF UK’S Youth Advisory Board, along with 25 Ambassadors and supporters want world leaders to hear them loud and clear. The climate crisis is a child rights crisis.

As COP26 kicks off on 31st October 2021, our Youth Advisory Board have written an open letter to world leaders as they enter critical negotiations on the climate crisis. The letter, published in The Times on 1^st November 2021 asks leaders, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, to listen to the voices of children, and to take their words with them into the Conference.

Co-signed by UK Ambassadors and High Profile Supporters, including Orlando Bloom, Olivia Colman and David Harewood they declare the climate crisis a child rights crisis and request leaders to add their name to the Intergovernmental Declaration on Children, Youth and Climate Action.

Read the Youth Advisory Board’s full reflections and what they hope to see at COP26 here.

Join our campaigners and add your name to the petition asking the UK Government to sign the Intergovernmental Declaration on Children, Youth and Climate Action and put children at the heart of climate action.