'There should be no such thing as a youth climate activist, yet here I am. And there are thousands of others like me, who have been led to a life of activism not by choice but by necessity, because climate change has deprived us of our basic rights.'
has investigated corporate responsibility for climate change. If successful, it could become the first official finding of corporate responsibility for the climate crisis by a human rights body. The implications of this are huge. It could create new opportunities for further legal action against the companies most responsible for climate change.
I’m not going so I can be given a token place to speak and receive polite applause from adults who think we are so brave for what we do. I am going because I want to make sure young people like me,In the six years since Typhoon Haiyan, the biggest lesson I’ve learned is that we have to stop letting fossil fuel companies
. We must let the people who already know what it means to lose everything decide what is possible. My generation will not be resigned to becoming climate statistics. We are going to write the future.
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