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 improving outcomes for children and their communities – prioritising 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 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 the immediate needs of children, reduce vulnerability, support family stability and expand opportunity for the next generation.
SCGV develops new carbon projects and helps align community-based projects to find finance and buyers. We support businesses in meeting immediate and long-term climate contribution and offsetting goals aligned with global targets.
With a network in over 116 countries, SCGV has an active pipeline of projects and can co-design initiatives to align with partner preferences. By financing a project with us, organisations can lock in a long-term supply of high-integrity carbon credits that support community climate resilience and directly benefit children.
We also offer high-quality, high-impact community-based carbon credits available for spot purchases to help meet annual offsetting and climate finance contribution goals. For those not seeking carbon credits but still interested in supporting our work, please consider a philanthropic contribution to our Children’s Climate Catalyst Fund.
Contact us at info@scgv.org to learn more.
The 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 investors and sustain the work over time, enabling 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.
Carbon credits may be issued through a Verified Carbon Standard project [project ID to be assigned upon listing] for the greenhouse gas emission removals associated with Save the Children Global Ventures and participating smallholder farmers in Nandi County, Kenya, arising from agroforestry, afforestation, reforestation, and land restoration activities.
