Save the Children highlights need for COP27 to get climate emergency under control

CAIRO - 5 November 2022: The Save the Children Fund released a statement on its official website calling on governments at COP27 to support the creation of a finance mechanism to combat the loss and damage of climate change that severly affected children’s rights. 

The Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, said that COP27, which is taking place in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh starting Sunday, represents one of the final opportunities to get the climate emergency under control and provide ambitious funding to secure a safe future for our planet and generations to come.  

“The climate crisis is a child rights crisis and the decisions made in Sharm el-Sheikh will affect children’s futures,” the statement said. 

It further added that "It will take months, if not years, to repair the flood damage in all five countries. However, the scale of need required for sustainable and resilient reconstruction likely exceeds most of the countries’ available resources," urging countries to take firm steps towards sustainable solutions to reduce the negative effects. 

The fund said that widespread flooding over the past three months has thrown the lives of about 19 million children off course in the top five most impacted countries, highlighting the need for COP27 summit to get the climate emergency under control.

Save the Children teams have been responding to the floods in the most impacted countries where the aid organization works (Pakistan, Nigeria, South Sudan and India).  

Save the Children, is an international non-governmental organization established in the United Kingdom in 1919 to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities as well as providing emergency aid in natural disasters, war, and other conflicts.