Climate action

We’re working with communities to build climate resilience 

Plan International works across south-east Asia and the Pacific to help communities adapt to climate change, to make sure children, women and marginalised groups are involved to help shape the design of our projects.

These projects include planting vegetable gardens at school using climate-resilient seeds, and mangrove or tree-planting to protect coasts from floods and storms. We’re also working with communities to improve farming practices and to prepare for and to respond to disasters. We reach children and adults through games, school-curriculum and community outreach.

Climate change magnifies gender inequality. That’s why climate action must include girls.

Educating girls is one of the most effective, and most overlooked, ways to mitigate climate change. In fact, for every year a girl stays in school, her country’s climate resilience measurably improves.

But unfortunately, climate change magnifies the inequalities girls and women already suffer, such as their unequal access to health, sexual reproductive health and rights, education, participation and protection.

In times of crisis, girls are the first to drop out of school to help their families earn money, to tend to domestic duties or look after relatives, and they face an increased risk of exploitation and abuse.

Using art as a powerful tool for change

Art is a powerful tool for activism that allows artists to express their opinions and advocate social and political change.

In Nepal, which is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change, twenty young activists worked together to create a vibrant exhibition with the aim of raising awareness about the adverse affects of the climate crisis and the need to take action to save our planet before it’s too late.

The art displayed serves as poignant visual representation of the challenges articulated by the youth activists. Their creative expression echoes the urgent need to address the climate crisis and safeguard children’s fundamental right to education, particularly girls and young women.

These paintings took centre stage at the launch of our new report For Our Futures: Youth Voices on Climate Justice and Education which sheds light on the profound impact of the climate crisis on access to education for girls and young women in three countries across the Asia Pacific region.