World Vision at COP30
Can COP30 Deliver the Change the World Needs?
The agenda in Belém is ambitious and fraught with complexity. Negotiators will grapple with the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC 3.0), the shape of adaptation goals and indicators, and the question of climate finance, who pays, and how much. The rules governing carbon markets and transparency mechanisms will demand resolution, while urgent debates on biodiversity, nature-based solutions, and agrifood systems cannot be deferred. Brazil’s presidency has called for mutirão, a collective spirit of solidarity and ethical responsibility. The challenge is whether leaders will rise to that call, or once again fall short.
World Vision's call to action to ensure children's rights to a healthy, safe and sustainable future are as follows:
- Keep 1.5°C Alive: Cut emissions urgently to keep the 1.5°C target within reach and protect children’s futures. Ensure just transitions that safeguard health, education, and livelihoods, raise ambition in NDC 3.0 with children’s voices included, and meet the Bonn Challenge to restore 350 million hectares of land by 2030.
- Put Children at the Centre of Climate Governance: Guarantee meaningful child and youth participation in climate decisions, embed children’s rights in ACE processes, and commission a special report on nutrition and climate change. Climate policies must be child-friendly and inclusive of vulnerable groups, including Indigenous and disabled children.
- Build Resilient Systems for Children: Scale up nature-based solutions like FMNR to create sustainable food systems and healthy diets. Prioritise child-centred adaptation in fragile, urban, and rural contexts, harness Indigenous knowledge, and integrate climate action with strategies to end child hunger and malnutrition.
- Deliver Child-Responsive Climate Finance: Provide fair, sufficient, and grant-based finance under the NCQG, with at least 50% for adaptation in fragile and conflict-affected settings. Ensure local actors working with children have direct access, and make funds transparent, accountable, and tied to child-focused outcomes.
- Guarantee Children’s Access to Loss and Damage Support: Design the Loss and Damage Fund to respond to both sudden disasters and slow-onset crises, with children’s needs at the core. Give communities direct access and ensure funds are additional to existing development budgets, protecting schools, health, and vital services.
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