This study collates the findings of more than 420 research reports exploring the relationship between climate change and child displacement and migration, and the views of 125 global, regional and national experts in these fields. Importantly, it also shares the perspectives of 239 children in Fiji, Iraq, Mali, Mozambique and Peru, who live in high-risk climate settings or have relocated due to climate change – bringing children’s voices to the dialogue as a starting point for age-responsive policy and practice.

This report considers children’s vulnerability to key climate threats, and how those threats are driving child displacement and migration, in six high-risk settings: low-lying coastal areas, river floodplains, drylands, mountainous areas, cyclone zones and urban areas. It also provides examples of effective governance and responses.