Across the globe, many young adults and children worry about the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change. They fear that by the time they are middle-aged, the world will be a much warmer, stormier and more uncertain place than it is today.
Youth Fight Climate Change in Copenhagen
Published February 12, 2010
Pulitzer Center Student Fellow Sara Peach interviewed youth leaders and activists from around the world attending the COP15 conference for her reporting project "Youth Change the Climate in Copenhagen."
This story was reported for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting as part of the Copenhagen News Collaborative, a cooperative project of several independent news organizations. Check out the feed here from Mother Jones.
For many youth, a warming world is more than an abstract threat.
Ruchi Jain, 23, was working as a marketer in Mumbai, India, when she left her job to become a full-time climate activist with the Indian Youth Climate Network and
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Sara Peach is an independent multimedia environmental journalist. Most recently, she served as editor-in-chief of www.poweringanation.org, an interactive journalism project that explores energy in...
