Across the globe, many young adults and children worry about the potentially catastrophic effects of...
Join Pulitzer Center Student Fellow Sara Peach as she covers the Copenhagen climate negotiations, one of the most important environmental meetings of our time. This December, Sara travels top Copenhagen to meet those who will be most affected by climate change and youth.
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.
A new international youth climate movement is organizing a fight against climate change, leading global demonstrations and pressuring world leaders to take action.
That movement comes head to head with politicians in December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference. There, teams of international negotiators attempt to agree on a global climate treaty. Meanwhile, thousands of youth participate in boisterous demonstrations inside the conference center and on the city streets.
Join Sara Peach in "Youth Change the Climate in Copenhagen," as she follows members of the International Youth Delegation as they pressure negotiators to reach a strong climate agreement. She also speaks with dozens of young people about their anxieties and hopes for Earth's future.
Sara Peach holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was selected as a Roy H. Park fellow in 2007. Peach was awarded a student fellowship from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting for her Copenhagen project as part of the Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium initiative.
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.
