This chapter introduces the book Climate Change and Children’s Rights in Zimbabwe: Toward Social Policy-Based Interventions. The book shows that climate change poses an existential threat to children’s rights in Zimbabwe, now ranked among the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations. This introductory chapter establishes a framework for examining the nexus between climate change and children’s rights, contextualising Zimbabwe’s children within regional and global climate vulnerabilities. Drawing on international instruments including the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC), alongside Zimbabwe’s evolving policy architecture, the chapter demonstrates how climate impacts which include rising temperatures, declining rainfall, and intensifying extreme weather events systematically undermine children’s rights to health, education, nutrition, water, and protection. The analysis reveals critical implementation gaps between policy frameworks and ground-level child protection while highlighting intersectional vulnerabilities affecting displaced children, girls, and rural populations. Through synthesising evidence across four thematic areas, i.e. legal foundations, climate-induced displacement, sectoral impacts, and adaptation strategies, the chapter advances understanding of climate injustice, wherein children bearing minimal responsibility for emissions experience disproportionate consequences. By integrating comparative regional analysis with Zimbabwe-specific case studies, this foundation challenges passive conceptualisations of children as climate victims, instead positioning them as rights holders and essential agents in climate adaptation, demanding transformative policy responses and justice that addresses structural inequalities.