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The book Adapting Cities to Climate Change opens with an overview of risks that human settlements face due to climate change, potentials for adaptation, constraints on the implementation of necessary steps, and governments’ facilitating and protective roles. It then applies these topics to different parts of the world, with a focus on low-and middle-income regions in Africa, Asia and Latin America and case studies in Dhaka, Mombasa, Cotonou (Benin), Durban and Cape Town. These regions are home to most of the world’s children. For readers of Children, Youth and Environments, Sheridan Bartlett crystallizes the implications for young people in her chapter on “Climate Change and Urban Children: Impacts and Implications for Adaptation in Low-and Middle-Income Countries.” Bartlett argues that children often face disproportionate risks from climate change. Young children in particular are vulnerable to …