Climate change and environment

As humanitarian action falls short of addressing the climate crisis, children and young people are bearing the brunt. They make up half of the world’s population, but are least responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation and other hazardous practices harming our environment.

What We Do

At Al-Liqaa Foundation, our climate, disaster risk reduction, environment and energy activities aim to:

• Environmental Action: Climate change and environmental degradation can be addressed for and with young people, through programmes for survival, health and well-being. We support local solutions that value biodiversity as well as nature-based solutions. And we act to protect children’s health from toxic metals, chemicals, hazardous waste, air pollution and other harmful biproducts of our societies.
• Sustainable Energy: We partner with the public and private sectors to advance clean, renewable and sustainable energy solutions. That includes areas like the programmes like solar water pumping. We help to electrify schools and health centres, and to enable community-level energy access for education and social protection programmes. We also engage in green skills training, adolescent and youth mobilization, cross-sectoral advocacy and policymaking.
• Climate change and environment: As humanitarian action falls short of addressing the climate crisis, children and young people are bearing the brunt. They make up half of the world’s population, but are least responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation and other hazardous practices harming our environment.
• Our Advocacy: The investments we can make for the most vulnerable people now will ensure that they survive, grow and thrive in the face of climate and environmental shocks. Al-Liqaa Foundation advocates for these investments, while supporting young people with the education and skills they need to help make the world a greener place.
• Child-Sensitive Policies: Al-Liqaa Foundation works to ensure that policies on climate, environment, energy and disaster risk reduction integrate children’s and young people’s views, concerns and solutions. Policies shape the world that the younger generation experiences today and will inherit in the future. In our climate change work, we support youth advocacy through tools and training.
• Engagement with Young People: Al-Liqaa Foundation works to elevate and empower young people to meaningfully participate in the decisions and actions that affect them. We work with them to develop youth-friendly tools for climate action and give voice to young climate activists, innovators and entrepreneurs>
• Innovation: Protecting people from the effects of climate change and empowering them as agents of change require transformational solutions. Al-Liqaa Foundation’s approach to climate innovation is aimed at finding such solutions to the most stubborn climate crisis challenges.
• Inclusion: The impacts of climate disasters affect different women, children and youth differently, based on their gender, age, disability, location or migration status. Al-Liqaa Foundation works to include all in climate and DRR decision-making so to they can be better prepared, protected, and resilient.
• Multisectoral Work: To ensure critical services are more inclusive, resilient to and prepared for disasters and climate change impacts, Al-Liqaa Foundation works across the following sectors:
  • Education, including climate resilience;
  • Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), including climate-resilient WASH initiatives;
  • Child protection; and
  • Social policy, including shock responsive social protection.