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Our Kids' Climate @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social · 1d

👣 Your child’s footsteps can reach COP30.

📷 Submit a photo of their feet + your message for leaders.
🗓️ Deadline: Oct 12

🔗 Join here: familiaspeloclima.org/2025/09/15/s...

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Our Kids' Climate @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s how to join:
📷 Photograph your child’s feet.
📝 Add a short context/message.
🔗 Submit via the form: familiaspeloclima.org/2025/09/15/s...
Each image = a message to leaders: What planet are we leaving for our kids? 🌱
Together, let’s raise the voices of children at #COP30! 🧡

Our Kids' Climate @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social · 2d

👣 Join My Family is at #COP30!
Send a photo of your child’s feet: in nature, in cities, or in places affected by the climate crisis.
Your photo will be part of a global exhibition in Belém, Brazil, during COP30.
👉 Take part until Oct 12: familiaspeloclima.org
#MyFamilyAtCOP30 #ProtectWhatWeLove

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Our Kids' Climate @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social · 5d

🌍👣 Children’s steps, children’s voices.
Be part of the exhibition My Family is at COP30.

📅 Deadline: Oct 12
🔗 Submit here: familiaspeloclima.org/2025/09/15/s...

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Our Kids' Climate @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social · 9d

So honored to receive the 2025 award from @europeanlung.bsky.social‬
for our clean air campaigning. 🌍💙

The award is testament to the amazing, collective work of our global community of parents & carers, who continue to stand up for every child’s right to breathe clean air.

#OurKidsAir #ELFAward

European Lung Foundation @europeanlung.bsky.social · 11d

The 2025 ELF Award goes to @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social 🌍💚

A global network of parent-led organisations championing cleaner air and policies to protect children’s respiratory health from climate change and air pollution.

🎥 youtu.be/4bQI1ZAza6A

#ELFAward #ClimateHealth

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Our Kids' Climate @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social · 9d

Was a privilege to attend and speak, thank you for the opportunity.

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Clean Air Fund @cleanairfund.bsky.social · 26d

Kamila Kadzilowska is putting children's health at the heart of decision-making in Poland - calling for cleaner air and integrated climate & health policies. She champions the parents' movement fighting #AirPollution which disproportionately harms children @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social
bit.ly/4n9DzGv

Graphic announcing Kamila Kadzilowska as one of the Clean Air Fund's 2025 Urban Clean Air Champions

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Our Kids' Climate @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social · Sep 7

The race for clean air is one that our kids need us to WIN! 🏆 We loved working with Wind Sun Sky Entertainment to create an engaging kid-friendly video for #CleanAirDay with their character Future Chicken.

Watch it here 👉 youtu.be/SyGouJzgUxc?...

@climatemama.bsky.social

International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies

YouTube video by Future Chicken!

youtu.be

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Our Kids' Climate @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thrilled that Kamila - a member of our Clean Air Circle from
Polish parent group Rodzice dla Klimatu - is featured in this illustrious list of #UrbanCleanAirChampions!

Parents are a formidable force in #CleanAir advocacy b/c it's #OurKidsAir!

@parentsforclimate.bsky.social @parentsforfuture.de

Clean Air Fund @cleanairfund.bsky.social · Sep 5

We’re excited to announce our 2025 #UrbanCleanAirChampions!🌍

From grassroots action in Accra, to influencing policy in Bangkok, these champions demonstrate how clean air action looks in practice. Meet them ahead of
@unep.org #CleanAirDay 👇
bit.ly/4n9DzGv

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Our Kids' Climate @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social · Sep 5

Over 90% of children worldwide are breathing dirty air – putting their health and futures at risk. This #CleanAirDay (7 Sept), parents and families are joining the Race For Air. Because it’s #OurKidsAir – and every child has the right to grow up healthy. 💙🤍

📷Shruti Sharma

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Our Kids' Climate @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social · Aug 27

5⃣ Talk about feelings

6⃣ Support collective action

7⃣ Experience nature

8⃣ Connect through school

By: Kata Nylén & @klimatfrida.bsky.social

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Our Kids' Climate @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social · Aug 27

8 ways to talk to your child about the climate crisis

1⃣ Educate yourself

2⃣ Act – with or without children

3⃣ Ask them open questions

4⃣ Tell the truth, but point out that it’s not a done deal

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Our Kids' Climate @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social · Aug 27

How do we talk to our kids about the climate crisis?

Here are 8⃣ tips to help you meet your child’s climate questions & concerns with care & confidence, based on guidance from psychologists & parent organizers.

👉 Check out this thread to learn our tips 🧵👇

🔗 Download the full guide: dub.sh/UvlCTiU

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Astrid Puentes, UN Special Rapporteur on Healthy Environment @srenvironment.bsky.social · Aug 19

So happy to participate! If there is something that really motivates me and show me the path I need in my work are my kids. As a mom, I know I am working for their future.

Our Kids' Climate @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social · Aug 19

What does climate justice look like to a mother & rights expert?

Join our next community call with @srenvironment.bsky.social, UN Rapporteur & OKC Fellow, to hear her powerful story of parent-led action & environmental justice.

📅 Aug 26, 1PM UTC
📩 [email protected]

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Our Kids' Climate @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social · Aug 19

What does climate justice look like to a mother & rights expert?

Join our next community call with @srenvironment.bsky.social, UN Rapporteur & OKC Fellow, to hear her powerful story of parent-led action & environmental justice.

📅 Aug 26, 1PM UTC
📩 [email protected]

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Our Kids' Climate @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social · Aug 12

All children have a right to food, safety, to medical care, to play, and to life.

The children of Gaza have had their childhoods shattered in Israel’s siege.

They need food, water, medicine and protection. No more bombs, no more violence. Let aid in. Ceasefire, NOW.

📸: @rowanryrie.bsky.social

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Climate Central @climatecentral.org · Aug 7

Wildfires continue to burn across parts of the U.S. and Canada again, and air quality has dropped from "moderate" to "unhealthy" again for millions of Americans Thursday (lasting through the weekend).

Here’s a quick 🧵 on how climate change is part of the smoke story 🔽

Map of North America showing active wildfires (marked with red flame icons) concentrated in western Canada and parts of the western U.S. Colored circles indicate current air quality: green (good), yellow (moderate), orange (unhealthy for sensitive groups), and red/purple (unhealthy/hazardous), with poor air quality across the central and eastern U.S., especially around the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley.

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Our Kids' Climate @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social · Aug 7

In a landmark Advisory Opinion, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) made it clear that states most responsible for the climate crisis have a legal obligation to protect current & future generations by cutting emissions & providing reparations for those affected.

👉 Swipe through for details!

Our Kids' Climate @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social · Aug 5

Extreme weather is intensifying.

Food & energy costs are rising.

Environmental & human rights defenders are facing crackdowns.

Whilst billionaires profit & prop up industries polluting our land, air & water.

This Sept, join thousands on the streets to #DrawTheLine

www.drawtheline.world

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Our Kids' Climate @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social · Jul 30

💬 “What counts for our kids' healthy development is our love, our attention, and also something that we can't buy in any pharmacy: clean air.”

Kamila is a mother from Poland & a member of our Clean Air Circle, fighting to protect children from coal pollution & toxic air.

📺 Watch & share her story!

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Our Kids' Climate @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social · Jul 25

THE HERDS is an amazing public art project, which has seen life-sized puppet animals take a 20,000 km journey from the Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle to raise awareness of the climate emergency. Read more here: www.theherds.org

THE HERDS

A public art and climate initiative from April–August 2025: life-size puppet animals travel 20,000km from the Congo Basin to the Arctic, fleeing climate disaster. Events and performances unite arts an...

www.theherds.org

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Our Kids' Climate @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social · Jul 25

Join us for a creative climate workshop with THE HERDS on 29 July at 1pm UTC.

Our two-hour workshop is open to kids, families, and friends.

We will be making puppet animals & joining the HERDS virtually!

Email [email protected] to join!

#ClimateAction

@parentsforfuture.de

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Our Kids' Climate @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social · Jul 24

Our global family of changemakers 🙌

Our new brand launch is an opportunity to celebrate the amazing members that make our vibrant community what it is.

Our members bring their passion, dedication & action to protecting the planet for our kids. 🌎

Join us: ourkidsclimate.org

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Fossil Fuel Treaty @fossiltreaty.bsky.social · Jul 24

For the first time, the ICJ confirmed that:
✅ Fossil fuel expansion may be an internationally wrongful act
✅ States must protect human rights, present and future generations
✅ Cooperation and treaties are essential to solving the crisis

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Fossil Fuel Treaty @fossiltreaty.bsky.social · Jul 24

🌍 BREAKING: The world’s highest court just made history.

The International Court of Justice has ruled that climate action is a legal obligation—not a choice.

Read our press release at FossilFuelTreaty.org/icj

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