 Hello, my name is Yusra and I am one of the youth delegates that will be participating in COP 27 in Shuddemulshake this year. I work with Development and Peace, Caritas Canada and I am honored to be joining this delegation. A little bit about me is that I am an international student from Kuwait studying at the University of Toronto specializing in psychology and minoring in environment and behavior. The application of mental processes and the lenses of human behavior have played a pivotal role in informing my approaches to the ecological crisis and the environment in general. They have also bought to light numerous issues. These include dimensions such as eco-anxiety which is defined as hopelessness, despair and deep-rooted anxiety about the future of the world due to climate-related issues. This is a condition that becomes progressively more and more pervasive in our youth. These lenses have also allowed me to gain a more transdisciplinary understanding, especially with regards to how the climate crisis disproportionately affects minority communities, indigenous communities and communities in the global south. We call upon the Canadian federal government to take more stringent measures to stick to the agreed-upon terms of the Paris Accord, achieve more at COP 27 this year and push for an adopt bill such as C226, an act that proposes to assess and address environmental racism and to advance environmental justice. Finally, we urge the Canadian public to stay up to date not only with the environmental issues faced by Canada, but also the environmental issues faced by the rest of the world. After all, we all share the home that is planet Earth.