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:
Reducing Tdh’s environmental footprint, including a commitment to cut organisational carbon emissions by 50% by 2030.
Mainstreaming climate adaptation and resilience across programme design, implementation, and monitoring.
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.
HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-01: National Adaptation Hubs - Bringing together the national level with the engaged regional and local levels (multi-level governance)HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-02:Actionable solutions for climate adaptation to the knowledge of the regions and local authoritiesHORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-03: Standardising and supporting climate services to serve climate adaptationHORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-04: Bridging the gap between disaster risk management and climate adaptation
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HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-04: Bridging the gap between disaster risk management and climate adaptation
HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-03: Standardising and supporting climate services to serve climate adaptation
HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-02:Actionable solutions for climate adaptation to the knowledge of the regions and local authorities
HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-01: National Adaptation Hubs - Bringing together the national level with the engaged regional and local levels (multi-level governance)