Climate change poses profound risks to children, threatening health, education, food security, and long-term opportunities. Yet less than 3% of global climate finance is intentionally directed toward addressing children’s specific needs. SCGV is mobilising climate finance to address the negative impacts of climate change while also improving outcomes for children and their communities.
Our strategy focuses on reducing environmental harm while simultaneously creating lasting benefits for children and families. We prioritise scalable models that strengthen community resilience, restore ecosystems and generate sustainable financial returns that can be reinvested into local priorities.
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are actions that protect, restore and sustainably manage ecosystems to address climate change and strengthen communities. These include reforestation, agroforestry and other approaches that sequester carbon, enhance biodiversity and improve livelihoods.
SCGV’s specific approach focuses on NbS projects that create direct and lasting benefits for children. We look for projects that demonstrate:
Our advantage lies in applying a child-centered lens to climate finance. We intentionally structure partnerships and capital to ensure that climate mitigation efforts also meet immediate needs of children, reduce vulnerability, support family stability and expand opportunity for the next generation.
Learn more about our PortfolioThe Nandi Project is a community-led landscape restoration initiative designed to generate high-integrity carbon credits while also strengthening farmer livelihoods and improving nutritional outcomes for children.
In partnership with Save the Children Kenya and Kiptapkei Environmental CBO, SCGV is supporting rural smallholder tea farmers in Nandi, Kenya to diversify their land by integrating avocado crops and native trees. Climate finance provides upfront investment in tree nurseries, farmer training and support, and near- and long-term project monitoring.
Investment from eight law firms participating in Legal Charter 1.5 helped launch the project which will generate certified carbon credits for the investors and to sustain the work over time and enable opportunities for other investments in the local community.
Through initiatives like the Nandi Project, we’re demonstrating how climate finance can serve both environmental and child-centered outcomes – delivering measurable climate impact alongside tangible improvements in children’s lives.
