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Youth activists speak out in Copenhagen
In Copenhagen last month at the United Nations climate negotiations, I conducted short interviews with young people from all over the world. I was struck by how much the young people had in common – from Nigeria to India, from Australia to Sweden, it seems that youth climate activists want to send the same message.
Here are a few highlights from those interviews. You can view more at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting’s Heat of the Moment gateway.
Jamie Racine, USA
Anna Keenan, Australia
Linkesh Diwan, India -
Meet Ruchi Jain, Indian youth climate activist
Here’s my latest story from Copenhagen for Grist, a profile of 23-year-old climate activist Ruchi Jain. The Huffington Post picked up the story, here.
Ruchi Jain, 23, was working as a marketer in Mumbai, India, when she left her job to become a full-time climate activist. Today she works with the Indian Youth Climate Network and 350.org, and she traveled to Copenhagen in December to participate in the [United Nations] climate talks.
The rest.
I reported from Copenhagen thanks to a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
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More Copenhagen linky goodness
Postcard from Saturday’s mass climate demonstration
The media circus inside the Bella Center
More coming soon!
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I’m on Grist
My first Grist post, which gives an inside look at the youth movement at the UN climate negotiations, is here. Click through for a brief interview with American activist Brianna Cayo-Cotter and shots of the action inside the Bella Center here in Copenhagen.
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