Climate activists share candid advice for top COP officials

Young people are calling for action on the climate crisis, and the world is taking notice. Thanks to the internet, youth protestors are organizing across continents like no generation before them. As leaders prepare to meet in Glasgow, F&D asked a few prominent youth climate activists the single most important message they have for policymakers at the COP26 summit. Here’s what they said.

If we do not vehemently oppose this current system, we give currency to it. By allowing it to continue, we are giving it our tacit support.

There are, as is often the case, many ways to challenge this current system. But I would like to reflect on two key points: the value of communities and grassroot activities in combating the climate crisis and the importance of social movements in speaking truth to power.

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