Philippines,134 render the population highly vulnerable to these impacts, while severely limiting their resilience and capacity to adapt.135 As climate change impacts escalate, these multiple layers of vulnerability are only likely to entrench and fuel existing drivers of conflict between people and groups, particularly those pertaining to control over access to natural resources. An example of how these factors converge can already be observed; in 2016, water and food shortages resulting from El-Nino-induced drought, and exacerbated by the conflict between government and armed groups, led to violent protests in Mindanao. 136 In the absence of significant investment in child-focused resilience and adaptation, the outlook for securing and upholding the rights of these children caught up in a perfect storm of climate risk and conflict – and already amongst the most marginalised – is particularly bleak.

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