Our Children's Trust

OUR MISSION

Our Children’s Trust is a non-profit public interest law firm that provides strategic, campaign-based legal services to youth from diverse backgrounds to secure their legal rights to a safe climate. We work to protect the Earth’s climate system for present and future generations by representing young people in global legal efforts to secure their binding and enforceable legal rights to a healthy atmosphere and stable climate, based on the best available science.

We support our youth clients and amplify their voices before the third branch of government in a highly strategic legal campaign that includes targeted media, education, and public engagement work to support the youths’ legal actions. Our legal work – guided by constitutional, public trust, human rights laws and the laws of nature – aims to ensure systemic and science-based climate recovery planning and remedies at federal, state, and global levels.

OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES

OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST ADVOCATES ON BEHALF OF YOUTH AND FUTURE GENERATIONS.

OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST ADVOCATES FOR LEGALLY-BINDING, SCIENCE-BASED CLIMATE RECOVERY POLICIES.

POWER FORWARD TOGETHER

The world’s only non-profit public interest law firm dedicated exclusively to securing the legal rights of youth to a healthy atmosphere and safe climate, based on the best available science.