In a major step for the world's 2.4 billion children now currently experiencing the climate emergency, the new document recognizes children's right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. This is a result of scores of children across the world who have been calling for change, Save the Children said. In this new text, "General Comment No. 26 on children's rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change", the Committee of the Convention on the Rights of the Child recognizes that: The triple planetary crisis (pollution, climate crisis and biodiversity loss) constitute a child rights violation; Environmental degradation affects every aspect of children's lives and threatens their future; Inaction by governments and businesses to address the environmental crisis results in child rights violation and the deprivation of their future; Children are not just passive victims, as demonstrated by their strong movement globally.

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