Terre des Hommes

Terre des hommes is an international child rights organisation operating in 27 countries.

Since 2021, Tdh has developed multidisciplinary expertise in climate adaptation and environmental sustainability across its core programmes: Health, Migration, Child Protection, Access to Justice, WASH, and digital innovation.

Tdh’s response to climate-related risks is structured around three pillars:

1. Reducing Tdh’s environmental footprint, including a commitment to cut organisational carbon emissions by 50% by 2030.

2. Mainstreaming climate adaptation and resilience across programme design, implementation, and monitoring.

3. Advocating for children’s rights to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment and access to climate justice.

Examples

• Health systems resilience: Tdh supports climate adaptation of healthcare facilities in highly exposed settings, including in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Facility-level adaptation plans address infrastructure, energy, WASH, workforce capacity, service delivery continuity during climate shocks (DRR), and governance. Local and governmental stakeholders are engaged through structured consultation mechanisms, supporting policy alignment and long-term sustainability.

• Migration, protection, and youth engagement: Tdh integrates climate education into child protection and migration programmes in South Asia, strengthening awareness of climate risks, life skills, and youth-led adaptation initiatives. Approaches are co-created with children and local actors and designed to be actionable and replicable by government stakeholders.

• WASH and education: Tdh manages climate-resilient WASH infrastructure in environmentally stressed contexts and promotes sustainable school environments through the Blue Schools model, engaging children and communities in practical adaptation actions.

• Access to justice and climate justice: Tdh addresses climate injustice affecting children through research, publications, and policy engagement, including global platforms such as the World Congress on Justice with Children, and contributions to international normative processes.

• Digital innovation and climate services: Tdh develops and uses digital monitoring systems and assessment tools for climate resilience, environmental impact, and risk analysis, supporting standardised, comparable, and data-driven planning. These tools are shared externally to promote collective learning and uptake.

Annex 1: TDH Environmental Policy | Terre des hommes

Annex 2: Climate and Environmental Roadmap | Terre des hommes

Annex 3: Engaging with children about the climate crisis and violence against children: A rights and resilience-based approach | Terre des hommes

Annex 4: Nepal: children fight climate change | Terre des hommes

Annex 5: Climate in-justice for children: How climate crisis affects access to justice and children’s rights | Terre des hommes

Annex 6: Courage n°76 - Népal - Les enfants combattent le changement climatique | Terre des hommes

Annex 7: #CovidUnder19 Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child in response to the consultation on General Comment 26 on Children’s right to a healthy environment with a focus on climate change | Terre des hommes