Participation and postpaternalism: child/youth climate action and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

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dc.contributor.authorDaly, Aoifeen
dc.contributor.authorPurcell, Niamhen
dc.contributor.authorMontesinos Calvo-Fernández, Estheren
dc.contributor.authorMurray, Emily Margareten
dc.contributor.funderHORIZON EUROPE European Research Councilen
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-01T10:56:48Z
dc.date.available2025-10-01T10:56:48Z
dc.date.issued2025-09-24en
dc.description.abstractChildren and youth have been engaging in climate action in significant numbers in recent years. They have engaged in protests in the streets, as well as dialogue with governments and intergovernmental organisations. In recent years they have been taking climate cases against governments with the aim of decreasing emissions in an effort to mitigate the climate crisis. In this article, we examine this action through the lens of child/youth participation. We begin by examining how the right to a healthy environment has developed. We then consider how participation rights for children have developed since the advent of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and, in particular, how the Lundy model frames children’s participation. Drawing on various examples of child/youth climate action, we apply the concepts of space, voice, audience and influence. We also consider the “postpaternalism” in different types of participation in environmental initiatives.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationDaly, A., Purcell, N., Calvo-Fernández, E. M. and Murray, E. M. (2025) 'Participation and postpaternalism: child/youth climate action and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child', International Journal of Children's Rights, 33(3), pp. 562-593. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-33030001en
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/15718182-33030001en
dc.identifier.endpage593en
dc.identifier.issn0927-5568en
dc.identifier.issn1571-8182en
dc.identifier.issued3en
dc.identifier.journaltitleInternational Journal of Children's Rightsen
dc.identifier.startpage562en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17927
dc.identifier.volume33en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBrillen
dc.relation.ispartofThe International Journal of Children’s Rightsen
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/HE::ERC::HORIZON-ERC/101088453/EU/Child-friendly justice for the climate crisis: Post-paternalist judgments, litigation, participation/YOUTHCLIMATEJUSTICEen
dc.rights© 2025, the Authors. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectClimate actionen
dc.subjectClimate litigationen
dc.subjectParticipationen
dc.subjectLundy modelen
dc.subjectPostpaternalismen
dc.subjectCOPen
dc.subject~Law - Journal Articles~en
dc.titleParticipation and postpaternalism: child/youth climate action and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Childen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
dc.typejournal-articleen
oaire.citation.issue3en
oaire.citation.volume33en
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