 Good morning and welcome to this discussion on addressing the drivers of eco anxiety This session is also being live stream on the World Economic Forum website and the website of the Straits Times in Singapore I'm Warren Fernandez, and I'm editor-in-chief of the Straits Times based in Singapore Some of you will know that Singapore is a small island state based in Southeast Asia and for us climate change and sea level rise is an existential challenge We do a regular podcast on sustainable sustainability issues called green pulse and it is one of the most popular Most downloaded podcast that we have showing the interests and concern on this issue There's been many discussions we've had in Davos, you know about the war in Ukraine about energy prices and food prices global politics But under looming behind all of that is the issue of climate change, which is real and it's relentless But it's also giving rise to a certain degree of anxiety amongst our people a Recent global study of 10,000 young people 16 to 25 in 10 countries Reveal some very troubling findings Six in 10 said they were either very or extremely worried about climate change Over half use words like sad, anxious, angry, helpless or guilty to describe how they were feeling about climate change 77% considered the future frightening More than half said they felt that humanity is doomed and 65% felt that fighting that the governments were failing them and not doing enough to tackle this issue So we want to spend this the first part of our session this morning discussing this issue of eco anxiety And then going on to looking at what we might do about this anxiety and how we can help turn anxiety to agency and then action and To do that I have a very inspiring group of Individuals here on my panel. I've just met them and I found their story. So interesting. I'm sure you will During the discussion. Let me just introduce them very very briefly From my left first of all Elizabeth was duty who is the founder of the green generation initiative in Kenya Then in a modia who is a land ambassador with the United Nations Convention to come to combat desertification And then Kahir Pacheco who is a co-director of the women's earth Alliance of the USA and Last but not least David Tao who is a world economic forum global shaper and also a researcher at the ETH here in Zurich First let's let's talk about eco anxiety I mean, it's an issue which which is out there But I'd like to get a sense from from you because you work in this space So let me start with Elizabeth, you know, you've heard the findings. You've seen the video young people saying they feel helpless and angry and guilty Tell me a little bit about Your connection the people you speak and work with how does that anxiety manifests itself and what do you think is driving it? Think eco anxiety is an issue that we have often failed to actually give a priority because it's happening it's affecting so many young people and From my point of view, I've spent the past few days talking about the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa And these are things that we see every day and not in parts that we are waiting to experience in the future It's about the drought situation that is impacting women children and communities that have least contributed to this crisis And of course these are people who are also losing hope for their future because right now they're already facing this worst impact and the reason why young people are anxious it's not because of the fact that science says that things are going to be catastrophic it's because What people are doing and what we see the leaders doing is still far much away from what sense is we must do and If we see that there's that delay in action, then that's what consists the anxiety because Sometime back somebody asks if we should begin to communicate differently about the climate crisis And I said no we're not afraid of the truth of what science says about these impacts What makes us anxious is the fact that science says that the problem is this huge and it will only become More catastrophic is nothing is done and still we don't see action being taken and what we see is this community is really Continuing to be greatly impacted and also we say a lot that governments are seen as failing to respond adequately to this problem But again, this is not just a perception that is among the anxious young people as we say it It's a plain and undeniable truth And we've heard it from different people from the scientific community from even the UN Secretary General and many other people will Attest to this that this is the truth and it's actually an Undeniable true that we have to move faster if we want to also address this issue of Econzality and again it's about acknowledging it that young people have every right to be angry to be frustrated and to actually Demand for action because this is about their future This is about a future that is not guaranteed with the way in which things are being done today You spoke at COP26 and made the point that governments weren't doing enough Is that a strong feeling that you're hearing from people all around you? Definitely governments are not doing enough because if they were doing enough then these humanitarian crisis would not be worsening It's been almost half a year since COP26 Where leaders met and what we are seeing is the fact that this crisis still continues to impact people on the front lines And this is the truth that we are not the only ones that are saying it This is a true that is being felt by people on the front lines and again They have been attending these negotiations and making pledges even before I was born and The fact that we still see not much being done is a big challenge to all of us That we need to be doing much more because emissions are still rising So how is it that we can say that governments are doing enough and yet we are still so much far away from what San says we must do Thanks a little bit. Let me bring it in now You've heard words like you're feeling sad and anxious and angry and powerless and helpless Tell me how that strikes you I mean, I think that it's very important to include young people in the conversation To really work with them and give them the opportunity to be part of not just the conversation But also in doing something because It's generation before that created what we are in right now and We are still facing the fact that there is not a real bridge between this generation and the younger one And we've seen them in the streets around the world coming out saying that they want to be heard they want to participate into doing something and they are holding people accountable people who are leaders and the leadership and Unfortunately has failed them They have they have failed them and so I Completely understand when you watch the news the cycle of news it can become super anxious Because we are just talking about the problem and not the solutions or sometimes when we talk about the solutions. It's just Words and action needs to follow words. We need to act on it otherwise this generation is going to hold us accountable and You know rightfully so David you're a global shaper with the web and watching that video Which I think you help put together as well and the references to the Vulnerability and the fragility of the planet and young people having this sense of folk foreboding You were telling me earlier that you having been in Davos all week also felt the sense of you know Impatience, you know, tell us a little bit about that sentiment. So born and raised in Germany I'm representing the global north but my parents are refugees from Vietnam and that reminds me and connects me very deeply To the climate crisis, which is not about nature. It's not about climate It's about the people the climate crisis the United Nations High Refugee Council Estimates that a billion refugees a billion people all around the world by 2050 will be displaced These are and I know it coming from my family such as this I know what it means to lose home to have to start new to be uncertain and to face danger and conflicts and potentially death and Growing up in the global north. I of course started to trust my leaders and say, okay We're gonna make it like we have we elect. We have democracy. We elect the most competent potentially leaders business leaders political leaders We have to raise some funds to get to solve climate crisis hundred billion dollars a year was pledged, right? And again and again and again over the years. I've seen they failing but really pledging Seen failing to keep up the promise of reducing deforestation by 2030 But we pledging the same pledge in Glasgow and seemed in failing. We need don't need hundred billion dollars We need trillions of dollars, but saying, okay Sorry, we don't have the money. We don't know how to save it in our economy In education, but then what stroke me and what really really struck my trust is That when the COVID pandemic happened and there was another crisis that affected them directly and also the wealth of the of the developed nations suddenly 15,000 billion dollars was raised in a year and this is money that is borrowed by future generations by us So not only I'm not willing to raise some money To protect the climate, but they're also taking our financial freedom in the future because this money needs to be paid back And also Talking about money, and this is one of the things I want to bring in as last part This is not how the young people think I really don't like to tell when I go to a panel and say Plant a tree for the dollar you will get back eight dollars or okay here Nature is like the biggest investment opportunity we've seen so far to attract more of these finance because the hundred hundred these hundred billion dollars are Not grants. They are loans where Countries and investors expect a return. So they they are not like for free and I don't understand why and This is a this is a discrepancy between how young people think because we look at the crisis as an Extential crisis as a moral crisis as something that affects us as people the lies that live there But instead in order to convince our leaders We need to state it as a business case to make sure like the global South is like a business opportunity They are not these leaders from the global South. They are our superheroes They are actually protecting us right now from a climate crisis by preserving forest nature and so on and this is something that has to be mentioned here Thanks David. Go here you work with young people and women in 24 countries Is that sense of this being a moral moral crisis something that comes to the fore? Absolutely. This is a moral crisis, and I guess I can start with sharing a story On September 9th, 2020 My my son was born and I woke up at 9 a.m. That morning with enough time to make it to the hospital But when I opened my eyes, I remember wondering if I slept through the day or did I wake up? way too early Because it was it was pitch black So I went to the window and I looked outside and it was like the apocalypse had hit and this is in northern, California There was it was 9 a.m. And there was no daylight it might as well have been 11 p.m. The sky outside was dark and orange and there was particles of ash kind of just floating around and this is because We're in such a severe Drought and have had such a lack of water and rainfall in the western in western North America that fires from British Columbia all the way down to California had just ravaged the region in in the weeks prior and and The air quality this was this was the result we'd all started speaking this different language about air quality index like What's your aqi today? What sensor are you using to test your aqi? Have you been outside? Is your chest hurt? Did you breathe outside? These are all questions that had become part of our common conversation and on that morning when I woke up and Looked outside. I remember thinking Is this the world I'm bringing this child into? it is this what we are leaving future generations and And and that story that that experience is not unique to me It's it's by no means unique to my region the women we work with in Kalimantan, Indonesia face that kind of air quality and those black and orange skies on a daily basis because of the the fires in the forests there fires that are Set to burn for us to clear it and to drain peatlands for agriculture and these this is just one example of the health and Mental impacts of climate change on communities There are many more and in many times it's it's women who face these these things the most because Climate change is a threat multiplier. It exacerbates existing inequities including gender inequity and so We look you know you were saying about a billion refugees 80% of the world's climate refugees are currently women And women are 14 times more likely to die in climate-related events than anyone else And it's not just I want to be clear. It's not just climate change impacts It's climate-inducing industries that are causing harm and and bringing about this eco anxiety in our communities in indigenous communities in North America for example that have been inundated by industry and Chemicals have leaked into our land our soils and our water women are finding that they are passing PCBs onto their children through their breast milk that leads to just this generational trauma of of Pollution you know we we're carrying a body burden Accumulative body burden of pollutants and we're passing that on to our children and as young people to understand that that's what we That's what we have. That's that's our legs. That's what we're inheriting No wonder everybody is suffering from eco anxiety, and I think one of the distinctions to make here is when that eco anxiety when that anxiety and that anxious feeling turns into resignation and into paralysis and Something that we've seen in our work That has personally been helpful to me is this recognition that for a lot of frontline communities They do not have the luxury of paralysis. They do not have the privilege to be stuck in resignation because if they are not taking action if they are not continually believing in and building their resilience their survival is on the line their survival of their children their survival of their Communities, so there is a power dynamic even here when we're dealing with eco anxiety and and climate doom is um Really, but but I think of that When I kind of think of those questions of you know, is this the world I'm leaving my child Is this what we're leaving to our future generations and and in the end the answer is is yes because even just within Women's Earth Alliance's global network. I know at least 12,000 frontline women leaders who are not stopping. They are not sitting in that paralysis They are they are maintaining resilience or they're building resilience and maintaining hope that they can change a system And I think what has been clear this past week at Davos is that? We need more we need more from this community here We need more from decision-makers like like Liz has been talking about and we need it faster Thanks, okay that story about you know You bring a baby into the world and that backdrop is something that I certainly can identify with because You know, I live in Singapore and from time to time we get the haze blowing into our city And it's nothing you can do about it and you start to worry about that the very air you're breathing in and it's It's real it's there for you, but I wanted to get a sense from all of you You know, we've been here in Davos and you've been hearing about your Ukraine war and cost of food and energy Does that cause you to feel that these issues which are so close to your hearts are starting to be sort of pushed To the sidelines and no longer front and center of people's minds that does that cause greater anxiety? any of you I think For me it causes anxiety in that I worry that Those At the decision-making table those currently at the decision-making tables don't understand how interrelated all of these crises are They're they're completely interwoven So addressing one helps to address another and actually to address one you often have to address multiple crises at once And if we don't we are not going to Create a sustainable planet in which we can live peacefully and and alongside one another You know, we haven't heard from you yet. Yeah, I think that it is I actually want to fight even more because I am past the anxious moment and Coming from a continent where you know in in a few years. We will double our population Like you were saying we don't have time to wait to find solutions because the planet is not waiting the climate is changing And so we are in a race where we really have to fight to make our voice heard And it is super super super important that we keep pressuring the leadership and we keep Pressing them to address all the different Issues that are tied to climate and we cannot just like you were saying we cannot just talk about one thing It opens the door for different situations. I come from the Sahel in in Mali Half of my country is is the desert and there are so many people who are facing Terrorism and different conflicts because that is also one of the things that climates create it's all the the insecurity and and and stable environment and I've traveled from a Senegal to Ethiopia all along the Sahel all along the Sahara to spend time with Communities who are living in the desert hood and who are fighting daily to survive who are fighting daily to create solutions that are Sustainable and will help Protect their families and the where they live and I realize that When we talk about climate change and we don't address the forced migration we don't address the fact that because of The fact that they don't have access to water and they have to walk miles to go and get water Education how do young people can go to school when they are going to get water? when our women going to be able to work and have Independence freedom Financial freedom to instead of going to find water. These are all things that are so important and They are all very tight when I now leave between Mali and Lisbon and so I I can see both sides and When I think about How it's so easy for me to just open the tap. I didn't grow up In places where it was that easy But now I think about it The way that I am leaving and a lot of us are leaving the modern life that we are living Contribute to the burden that These communities are carrying now because they are the ones who suffer it the most the most and they are the less who are contributing to it and we cannot just address things like in a in such a How do we say that and I'm thinking in French, sorry in It's not separate it's all together and we have one planet and we have to care about this butterfly effect and so to me it's When I talk about climate I talk about people I talk about everything that they are facing and when I Start the news everywhere. We talk a lot about migrants It's so important that we start changing our vocabulary These are climate refugees and everything that they are facing are intertwined and for me it is a It's it's really more than time Time has passed already for action. So we just have to go in these meetings and also on the ground and keep keep pushing keep pushing and Unfortunately, a lot of us are anxious, but we don't have time to to sit We just have to go. Okay, so time is not on our side And we've got to find ways to turn this anxiety into agency and action and not given to to resignation So I'd like to sort of transition into a second part of our discussion Which is to look at how we've moved how we can move and inspire people to to step up and take action and Own the challenge and I'd like to show you a little clip From Studio Silverbacks program called seat at the table and this is a series with the climate change activist Jack Harris and it's an episode called let's talk about climate change. We have the clip, please Climate anxiety. It's not an easy thing to talk about But what's become clear to me is that it's a huge issue for people all around the world knowing what's coming is Really further someone is sitting on my chair. How much I worry how much I feel to have a guilt What can I do what's going to happen? So I want to understand what we can do about it It's so important that we use this anxiety to turn it into action and how ultimately we can build tools for resilience Grief is a good feeling to go through because you'll come out of it stronger No matter who you are it's becoming clear to me that climate anxiety is Easiest to cope with when you know others also share those feelings It is not something that we are alone and we are all fighting it and feeling that anxiety together We could be on the sustainability revolution This shared climate anxiety by my generation that is going to be a massive force of willpower To push us in a positive direction I want to discover if it's possible to turn climate anxiety from a rational but paralyzing fear into a force for change So turning it from a paralyzing fear into a force for change and on on this panel we have four individuals who have done just that and Really inspiring stories which they've been telling me about which I'd really like them to share with you Maybe Elizabeth you can start by telling us about how you founded the Green Generation Initiative, you know Which tries to build a generation of environmental Enthusiasts true activities like tree planting and others. Tell us how you did that? I think one of the things that a Concert he does and feeling anxious angry and frustrated about what you see is the fact that It also gives you a natural call to action to want to do something and to want to use your voice to Change things around you because how can you not be angry? Frustrated and anxious when you spend time with communities who are grieving the loss of their lives and their livelihoods as well and people who are on the front line because we look at a Concert in terms of being afraid of the future when Also a concert in terms of what people are facing right now people who have faced losses people who depend on 80% Of their livelihoods from livestock that have been swept away by the floods or have had to die Prolonged drought and one of the reasons why I founded this initiative was because I Learned how to turn my anger into a hunger to want to Are around me and I think to me this is how we could continue to Acquanxiety is actually a path of world that gets us to do something But again, we cannot leave this work to just a small group of young people or Activists or people who are concerned about this this has to be Everyone's problem that everybody has to do something about it. So when I founded this initiative I actually remember Feeling angry about how people were treating nature because I have always been closed to the forest Landscape always been closed to the trees and clean streams and seeing people Destroying the wild forest and ecosystems made me angry, but again, you will not feel angry if you're not Systems and what's around you because when you are connected to something when you love something You'll step up to protect it and so for the past years We have been helping over 20,000 children to love nature and to also grow trees in their own school compounds And these are not just trees that they're growing. It's because they are also impacted by food insecurity So we figured out ways on how we can make sure that they pick corners in the designated School compounds and then they can plant mixed species of fruit trees That would ensure that they have something nutritious for them to eat at the end of the day but again, these are children who are living in a country that has been greatly impacted by this crisis and Also every day they are breathing toxic air every day. They are also You know afraid of the future because when they look outside their school compounds where they're planting trees They still see big businesses and corporations fuelling deforestation and burning fossil fuels And these are things that still continue to undermine the very efforts. They're trying to do within their own schools So we have to see this as a larger You know problem that everybody has to be involved because as much as we are trying to run these initiatives back at home with our communities These trees that we are growing with these children are not going to survive in our 2.7 degrees warmer planet So it's a whole big problem that we are doing what we can but we also need everybody to get behind this generation and We need people who have a bigger capacity and much more resources to also do much more so that together We can create that liveable world and a safe future for all for all of us and also for the children and generations to come Such a powerful phrase that you use turning your anger into that hunger to do something I think something that stuck with my mind You know tell me a little bit about the work you did with the UN and you worked on this documentary called the great green wall and you actually Presented the documentary as well. So tell us about that and what impacted me so I'm from the Sahel for me it was very important to to Go into these communities and spend time with them and understand because I'm from the Sahel But I was born and I grew up in in the capital of Mali So my reality even though my family comes from the northern part of Mali and we are people from the desert But my most of my life I was in a in in a big city very polluted But I didn't have to face what the communities in the desert are facing on daily And so I wanted to spend time and travel in the desert. So I for four years I was in Senegal in Niger in Nigeria spent You know, I did this journey 8,000 kilometers from Senegal to Ethiopia and because I wanted to understand the reality of it I wanted to see with my own eyes and be able to Give them a platform and give them a voice to share their stories because as an African I I was feeling that I had enough of a narrative that was already written for us And I wanted people who are living it daily to be able to tell us how it is and and what they can contribute How they can contribute in making a change because we have to give them the power to do that We have to give them the opportunity to to be part of this conversation and be part of the action even more and And so the Great Green Wall aims to restore hundred million hectares of land So it's about land restoration. We have to start with land land is one of the most important things ever and so in doing so We enable communities to not to stop surviving because a lot of people are surviving And if we don't do anything millions are going to be displaced and we see them going already I've met with people in in Agades in Niger people who were who had this dream of Going through the desert and then going to the Mediterranean Sea and coming to Europe and when they arrived to Europe I see all this You know new cycle where are the migrants are here? Where are they going to do they are fleeing because of climate change and it is super important that we Create a space where all the voices are part of this It is very very important. The Great Green Wall is not just about planting trees. It's about giving another opportunity to people by funding the Grassroot solutions the the community driven solutions by empowering women because more than 50 percent of women work people working in these communities are women and Only 3% of these women have ownership of land and so we really have to create a more balanced Environment for for the women who are working this hard and so for me it is a We we aim to achieve the Great Green Wall in 2030 But I think that it's a life mission because I have a two years old and I want her to grow in a world Where she's not fighting what the fight that we're doing today I'm fighting the fight that my mom and my grandmother were doing And so it has to stop because otherwise we we're just going until we're going to burn everything and it doesn't make sense so one of these Solutions climate solutions might be the Great Green Wall. There might be others that we need to support but we need to give the The power to the people because they are the heart of any project and they are the ones who are going to make It happen. It's a very compelling Documentary I commend it to all of you go Google it and watch it and you'll also find if you Google it Now is a performing musician. She does Mali blues, right? You said so you might catch a few videos of that and her music as well But care tell us about your work in empowering women to deal with this issue. Yeah I think history has shown us that powerful grassroots organizing is a vital lever in creating Major social changes just in the US alone. We can look at the civil rights movement as an example In grassroots solutions come from working Directly with the communities who are impacted by climate change and so the solutions often will address economic social and environmental issues Simultaneously because a community is always looking at all of these things. They're looking at everything in a holistic nature Because they're trying to ensure their health and well-being And I just want to note that you know over the week I've heard a lot about partnerships with you know Corporations companies partnering with each other partnering with tech partnering with states and that's Well in good and an important this has been the first time I've heard so much about Community work and centering community work, which if we are serious about addressing climate change Centering community work is is vital. It is critical. It is these are the solutions that are going to move the needle And and more, you know when solutions rise from the grassroots It honors and it reinforces people's agencies their ability to create change there there it grows resilience action begets action and so at women's earth lines we partner with community-based organizations and women leaders who are on the front lines of climate change and environmental injustice and we invest in their long-term leadership and in their solutions with capacity-building trainings with Sustainable livelihood development if if that's what the the community is calling for with funding and with a global network of support and And through that these Community-based solutions these women-led community-based climate solutions are really rising from the grassroots up and They're addressing multiple crises like I was saying earlier, you know, it's it's addressing more than one thing at a time and a Good example of that is our cove it and climate resilience Program, which we did in partnership with a community-based organization called women and water and natural resource Conservation in Kenya and we have been working with that organization. We have a long-standing partnership of more than a decade So there's a lot of trust built there and at the time when we launched this program Communities in the region we're dealing with climate impacts locus outbreak the pandemic and Flooding that took out bridges that the government was using to get supplies and and food in and so those supplies and that food were delayed or just were not guaranteed to ever come and The women in the community were mobilizing our partner In collaboration with our partner we set up a plan for short and long-term Resilience programming short and long-term solutions Our partner transformed their office space into a food and supplies distribution center We mobilized women we had worked with in the region community leaders in the region who had already gone through some some training on water and sanitation and health and They established hand-washing stations and trainings on water collection and filtration They set up seed banks for climate-resilient seeds to ensure that community always had access to Seeds that they could grow their own food and and stop reliance on government food aid they created a health clinic and They established tree nurseries and fruit tree nurseries to fight deforestation but to also provide an income and a food source and All of that is possible because of the mobilization of the grassroots because of women's leadership at the grassroots and because of that we were able to Replicate that kind of work Making it very community specific in more than nine countries So the importance of bringing the communities to the table to help solve the problem Not just bringing them to the table, but having them be the most important and the first voice at the table David you you work at a tech space. You're also a researcher at AI and you're sort of founder of a startup called gained forest Tell us about that work. So we looked into why Existing programs like United Nations, of course know about the problem of deforestation if everyone knows about this even people Who have worked in the space and before I was born? This problem is known the science is there. Why do we not get the right funds for right? and looking at this problem attending Talking to climate negotiators and people who work in that space and also communities one thing became clear to me that The reason why we don't have enough funds is because there's a mistrust between Communities and between donors between the whole system how the money can go from one spot to the other so but we did And what that and what gain forces doing this is a startup that resulted from many many years of research in the technology space in Ethnic as well as working and talking with indigenous communities in Brazil Southeast Asia and South America's in power guy is That we develop technology solutions specifically leveraging first AI based technology we take satellite data remote sensing to look at preserved areas and Exactly measure the impact not in the sense of like how much carbon is so but like in many other What are the species that are supposed to be living there natively like? How clean is the water getting like we try to derive many many sources of data Hundreds of sources of them combine them together Using sophisticated algorithms to really give a clear picture for the communities to empower their work on that space in any area in the world as well as also for the Donors investors and people who want to help to see that there is actually impact in there So but then we also try to self solve for more prom which is a community specific one Which is when the community is putting their work into that space planting trees restoring forests right protecting deep like land invasion eagle and vision that could kill people It's it's a super dangerous Activity how do they make how do we make sure that the promised money actually comes and what we do is we? leverage the blockchain space and technology 21st century technology that ensure that if you Promise to pay that money is going to leave your wallet first So it's gone But it's stored in the blockchain and the moment we can measure the impact It's getting released so we do have the mathematical Act that the money comes to communities then incentivize this trust and we're basically Technology can trust enhance this whole process speeding up the urgent action We need but I want to finish up with one last point because I just love this panel after center on community Based work and I want to tell you some stories how Working with communities actually enhanced our technology and made it so much better because I hear a lot of companies talking about Yeah, we need to involve communities We need to involve them into our work But what is it actually that you learn from them tell me one or two things and they couldn't they can't answer So I'm gonna tell you some things maybe some companies people who are looking at it could learn so first we developed these AI algorithms and Then when the communities that worked on it looked at our predictions. They were like wait a minute. That's not correct That's not completely right Right. They helped us fine-tune and debug things that only people on the side can understand for example things that are That are biased by the way these algorithms are trained. They're trained on historic data historic data is often times discriminatory to marginalize communities So they helped us see this through and because of their feedback We were able to involve something called participatory mapping involving communities to input additional data on the ground and When we were visiting these communities, we realized that this is another potential to create a new job for them Basically instead of harvesting forest and wood You can sustainably harvest the data from the forest to create even more trust because an investor a donor would very thankful to see To be connected to the area So now you have something that is like a 21st century technology Reach you only need a mobile phone to take pictures from trees to fly a small drone and you can upskill these communities And at the same time you create trust in a whole financial system and this is what gainforces doing Thanks, David. I absolutely can I jump on what you were saying? I absolutely love that I created my nonprofit code green on the blockchain because of that because of transparency because of the pace of it And you know exactly you can follow the money and funding has been something that You know, it's very difficult and you can raise money there can be pledge But you there is a lot of opacity around that and the harnessing the power that is in the blockchain and also Working with the communities that are also here in the space of the web 3 and blockchain. You actually can you know have so many people Involving to actively doing something by educating them on what are the issues and they can be part of it That's one of the reason we are creating a social doubt because it's a democratic way to involve everybody and to give everybody a voice And also the opportunity to do something by proposing solutions And and it you can create a global movement that way and it's digital communities Creating a bridge between these digital communities and real-world communities and coming together and partnering That's wonderful. I I almost feel I need to lock you for in a room and get you to Pollinate your ideas and help collaborate and find solutions and share those solutions Unfortunately, you know time is the most non-renewable resource of the planet and we're running out of time So I'll just give each of you just if you had one thing you could say to the audience in less than 30 seconds What would that be to inspire them to move from anxiety to action start with David 30 seconds or less Humility so whenever you come and develop your solutions You have to be able to learn and listen to communities We know we need to understand what are we good at so the not global north has the finances has the technological power But we do not know everything we need to work with communities. We need to empower them and only jointly We could maybe create something solutions that technology let the Indigenous let potentially and that's that's just amazing, but we need to be open for that humility care Action begets action and some of the greatest action we can take right now to address the climate crisis is a global investment in grassroots-led climate solutions I would say communities community-driven projects. We have to empower people Now would say we're the largest generation of youth in history and as you've heard we have chosen not to be victims We're stepping up and making the change that we want to see and so what everyone else can do is Actually inspire and support young people to build that momentum But we cannot seem to be inspiring and supporting one people young people on one hand only to just crush them with the other So we have to fully support and really engage young people. So humility Communities action begets action. I think that's a good way to wrap up I want to leave you with one last clip, which I think will sum up this discussion very nicely Please we have that final clip The thing about this issue is that it isn't going away any time soon. In fact, it's likely gonna get worse before it gets better For me, I think the thing I'm gonna take away the most from this journey is just Voicing how I feel taking the time to check in on your friends and ask how are you doing and allowing space For us not to be okay as well just to express that you're struggling because that's not only okay But it's natural in the face of this crisis For so long. I've allowed my climate anxiety to get on top of me It likely will at times again in the future But now I feel I have the tools to move past those dark moments None of us can save the world on our own But I found that by realizing my anxiety is shared by many other young people around the world By grieving for what I know will be lost And by joining many others in taking action in my own community where I live I find it easier to cope And even more than that It's given me the belief that from our generation's climate anxiety Can come the determination to really change our future and look after each other whilst doing so So Let's look out for each other and look out for the planet and turn anxiety to agency and action Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure you will join me in thanking my panel for a very inspiring session