Climate change is already shaping children's health, schooling, safety and daily life: water scarcity across Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, heat-driven school closures in India, displacement across the wider region. This site holds the evidence, and the guides built from it.
A global report can still hold the only data on your country. Every source here is tagged by what it actually covers, not only by who published it, so multi-country reports that include your country show up too.
Climate change does not affect children the way it affects adults.
In India, 97 in 100 children are exposed to two or more overlapping climate or disaster hazards.
Children's bodies are still developing. They depend entirely on the adults and systems around them. And they are rarely centred in climate policy or in peacebuilding.
A searchable library of reports, studies and data on how climate change affects children, sorted by country, theme and situation.
A ready-to-use handbook for children and a companion facilitator's guide. Use them as they are, or fold them into a programme you already run.
Why this exists, the Positive Peace framework behind it, how sources are chosen, and who it is for.
The UN climate conference runs from 9 to 20 November 2026, in the country where this fellowship is based. World Children's Day falls on its closing day. Children should be on that agenda, and this library shows where the evidence is, and where it runs out.
This initiative is built on Positive Peace, the framework developed by the Institute for Economics and Peace and central to Rotary's peace work. Fair resource-sharing, cooperation, trust between neighbours: these are what heat, drought and scarcity wear down first. The guides here give children and young facilitators practised experience of the behaviours that protect them.
We bring our values to life by showing how we use them to improve lives in communities around the world.
We honor our commitments.
We connect diverse perspectives.
We use our leadership skills and professional expertise to solve social issues in our communities.
Every claim behind the guides traces back to a real source. Each card leads with what kind of source it is, the year, and the countries it actually covers.
That gap is itself a finding. Widen one filter, or suggest a source for this combination.
Each circle is a source that covers that country and that situation. A hollow ring means the library holds nothing yet. Select any circle or ring to open the library at that spot.
Country tags are a first pass from titles, publishers and a first reading. Multi-country reports that rank every country are left out of this grid, because they rank countries without telling any one country's story.
Two paired resources, made to be used together or on their own. Run a session tomorrow with what is here, or take one activity into a programme you already run.
Climate change explained simply, across four real-life themes, with hands-on group activities and a closing pledge. One accessible reading level, with country examples from across MENA and India.
Everything needed to run a session: the deeper evidence behind the Handbook, ready-made session plans, and coaching notes for every activity, online and offline. No facilitation experience required.
Both books are free to use, adapt and translate. English is ready now. Hindi, Turkish and Arabic are being prepared, and the translated Facilitator Guide will carry a note asking a native speaker to check the safeguarding section before it is used with children.
Understanding climate change through a child-centred peacebuilding lens: India and MENA. The desk research behind every activity in the two books. It grades its own evidence, keeping modelled exposure separate from measured harm, and treats climate stress as one pressure among several rather than a cause of conflict.
A concise two-page brief for organisations and partners considering adopting or supporting this work.
Every resource here is a starting point, not a fixed script.
in your own country's examples and case studies.
it into the language your group thinks in.
a single activity into a programme you already run.
The Climate Champions Handbook and the Facilitator Guide were used in three in-person sessions with children in Delhi, then introduced to volunteers in two online training-of-trainers sessions. The range of 80 to 90 reflects one session where the attendance list and the host club’s own report disagree; both are shown rather than one being chosen.
These are facilitator and club-report observations recorded on the day. They are not measurements. In Laxmi Nagar the facilitator recorded that the groups reached a workable split without being directed to one, and that every group gave up some of its own. At the third session, 25 children completed the drawing activity, the water negotiation and a climate-resilient school drawing within one hour.
“We can see how children have suffered. It is high time for us to take action, we cannot wait anymore.”
A Rotaract volunteer from Kathmandu, speaking at the Project Rise kickoff about the glacier flood that struck her community in August 2026. Quoted with her name withheld.2025 to 2026 Rotary Peace Fellow at the Otto & Fran Walter Rotary Peace Center, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul. A policy and advocacy professional with more than 14 years in child rights, government engagement and evidence-based advocacy. This site is her Social Change Initiative.
[ONE LINE IN ANISHA'S WORDS: why she built this, e.g. the gap she found in the classroom between climate, children and peace]
New sources are added on a set rhythm. Every page shows the library was last reviewed on the date in the footer.
Fellows, clubs and practitioners can suggest a source or share how a session went, by email.
Any Peace Center, club or organisation can take it as it is or adapt it. The Stakeholder Brief explains how.