 so many people have been speaking about the climate crisis so many things have been put on paper but the real question is why is it that we're still not acting at the scale and speed that is necessary what we want to see at cop 27 is moving pledges into implementation every stakeholder needs to step up and push forward the extreme weather events that the scientists have long connected to the climate crisis are becoming far more frequent and far more destructive the climate crisis is a threat multiplier which means it exacerbates existing inequities in our society the impacts are felt most deeply by black indigenous and communities of color we're living through an explosion of inequality we need to remember we're on the same planet and this is the planet that we need to make sustainable for the whole of humanity climate change is impacting food security as well as political stability in many nations around the world five years ago there were 80 million people marching towards starvation that number jumped to 135 million what calls to jump it was man-made conflict like in Ukraine compounded with climate shocks no one is as vulnerable to climate change as farmers are if you talk transformation the first thing they want to know is what must I do on my farm this challenge a cop is the moment to set up monitoring and accountability mechanisms and put money on the table to help developing countries to accelerate towards decarbonizing we know that to this transition we require a fast adoption of a lot of new technologies and the question today is how to find the appropriate way to find in this technology to put a number around it it's an extra two and a half to three trillion dollars a year of additional finance that we have to find in order to get those emissions down financial institutions have a lot of roles to play to bring the advice and provide the financing to make these transitions happen younger generations are demanding a sense of purpose they want to look at companies and say I am investing with you all for this reason with two cops taking place in Africa and the Middle East we have this tremendous opportunity to put emerging markets at the forefront of our collective response to climate change international trade has to be part of the solution how do we all get together to talk about a global carbon price that can guide us and help us to decarbonize the world the solutions are there what we need is governments to regulate to invest and we need business to act with values history will look at us people politicians corporate leaders these times requires not only solutions but speed there is nowhere else to look than the mirror we are the ones that need to do this hello and welcome to today's session on the power and participation of young people at COP 27 my name is Natalie Pierce and I am the head of the world economic forums youth-based global shapers community and today I'm joined by my co-host Sophia Simmons Sophia leads the global shapers climate action initiatives hi Sophia how are ya hey Natalie it is a pleasure to be able to lead this discussion with you today it's a pleasure to be able to moderate because we have an incredible lineup of insightful and inspiring speakers so I suggest we jump right in as our viewers know UN led climate talks kicked off this week in Shemal shake Egypt and today we'll hear from some of our participating members on the key role that youth who represent more than half of the world's population are playing in this year's conference according to the recent UNF triple C report we are approaching five dangerous tipping points due to the current 1.1 degrees of global warming which presents of course serious extinction risks for many species us included so in today's session we want to get to the heart of the discussions taking place at COP 27 and here directly from youth delegates our world leaders doing enough to invert climate catastrophe and how are they listening to the voices of the next generation particularly those on the front lines of this crisis who are facing and feeling its worst effects global shapers represent 10,000 young innovators and activists under the age of 30 who are driving action to protect people and planet in 500 cities and 150 countries worldwide thanks to the support of a host of partners most notably the climate reality project global shapers have implemented close to 500 projects to reduce emissions respond to natural disasters and preserve biodiversity and of course conserve nature what we witness every day in our community is that young people are not giving up hope our members are taking local action raising community awareness and continuing to remind countries and companies of their duties to advance urgent climate action Sophia you highlight the important role that young people play in advancing the climate agenda and particularly the important role they play in this week's negotiation our members are joining forces in Egypt they're bringing their local communities and perspectives along their speaking truth to power they're liaising with key figures from across the UNF triple C process and they are ensuring that diversity equity and justice are at the forefront of discussions these are the principles at the heart of the global shapers community and the principles that young people are bringing to cop so with this in mind let us discover young people's stories of creativity innovation and resilience at cop 27 as they fight for their future and the future of our planet first we'll play a short video to give viewers a preview of youth activities at cop 27 let's roll it you saw into the conference center and now we are going to go live from the conference center we are connected so let's get started up first we will be joined by six members of the global shapers community and we are going to kick things off with wool Hammond he is a member of the global shapers Abuja hub in Nigeria professionally he's a sustainability expert and strategist advising institutions on green transitions and ESG integration for positive impact and he's also leading a green skilling program well how are you today I want to ask you what's happening what's your experience been like so far in Charmel shake hi Natalie thank you for your question it's been an eventful five days here in Egypt seeing activities from the blue zone the green zone and the green zone this is the fifth time cop is coming to Africa and it's it's a great opportunity for African leaders and negotiators to table the interest of regions that vulnerable to the problems and impact of climate change as well as demand solution and urgent action by other world leaders to address this problem I would also say I'm saying that it's an opportunity for not just Africa border least develop regions of the world and Southeast Asia and small island states to come together present their voices and see that we demand climate justice now and see equitable transition towards a green and sustainable future it's also been interesting to see young people we've not seen the type of walks and the protest we saw a cop 26 but young people have sort of come together in small groups around the blue zone to keep demanding and holding my leaders accountable and demanding that this is the time to take action and see that we make cop 27 happening here in Charmel shake an implementation cop to deliver on the promises and agreements that we've had before it's been a great experience and we look forward that this couple older to its promises and deliver on action that will protect the planet and bring just transition for the people so that we can live equitable and sustainable lives thank you Natalie thanks well you mentioned some of the various zones for those who won't have the chance to be in Egypt what has been your favorite pavilion or favorite session so far thank you it's been outside the blue zone and something interesting has happened for the first time in the history of cop for over 27 sessions for the first time we have a children and a youth pavilion it's great to see it's been great to see young voices people speaking sharing ideas walking and speaking true to power amplifying voices so the youth pavilion has really been an interesting place I've spent a couple of various engagement has spent a couple of time there and it's been my favorite place another place that would also interest young people is the innovation zone where we seen innovators and entrepreneurs as well as investors and private sector participants come together sharing ideas on how we can use innovation and technology to address the climate problem so for me the children the children and youth pavilion as well as the innovation zone have been the biggest points for me thanks well it is so cool to see live in the conference zone in the blue zone now so we're so happy you're with us have a last question and of course I have to ask how are youth moving the needle on the climate action agenda at COP 27 and particularly how do you think global shapers are making a difference thank you Natalie it's been great to see young people not only from the civil society space or the business side of things but also being part of country delegations and negotiating and being involved in the technical dialogue so it shows that young people have the skills the experience and they have the leadership traits to take climate action and the global shapers community as protecting the planet as one of its core impact areas and I will tell you shapers have been doing a lot of amazing work on the ground in their various communities across the 500 plus homes that we have and I see the opportunity for us to keep demanding and speaking true to power holding our leaders accountable ensuring that they take action we don't want to see the talks anymore we want to see action and global shapers can keep pushing for that in our respective communities and also mobilizing ourselves as a force of young people is one of our advantages so I see the opportunity to keep mobilizing true advocacy true policy support true innovation and entrepreneurship to drive green growth in our communities and ensure that we have just transition thank you thanks so much will for tuning in and joining us we are joined by five other global shapers as well so we are going to keep rolling it's pretty remarkable we have over 90 young representatives from the global shapers community alone who are present in COP 27 this week so a huge delegation from the global shapers community but of course there are hundreds of young people who are influencing the negotiations in Egypt over of course this past week and next week as well and so this session is really an opportunity to hear from them who is up next Sophia up next we have Marie Claire from the Zurich hub so I think it is important to note as we heard from wool that it's not just youth that are participating as contributors to civil society but as part of official delegations so Marie Claire you were awarded by the UN secretary general to be the youth climate champion of Switzerland and elected to serve the youth constituent constituency of the UNF triple C I also know that you lead several associations and initiatives and climate action sustainable development youth women power as well as the climate youth negotiators program so very happy to have you with us and I would like to ask you who should we be paying attention to right now in the actual negotiations who are the key players thank you so much and welcome from the negotiations itself here in Egypt you probably have heard some of the toughest negotiations are around loss and damage financing loss and damage adaptation but also when it comes to how are we addressing the gender related issues on climate or also education so there are a lot of things on our agenda especially because after we had the Paris agreement now we're moving into the implementation phase how are we really bringing these frameworks and policies to the ground and what my previous speaker just mentioned how can also people like all of you all of us actually work on the implementation that we actually have real climate action and so these are the big topics but I would like to address the question from a different angle because for too long we have been seeing a lot of talks and we haven't been moving forward and I think what is really really crucial is that that this cop has already mentioned we have an absolutely groundbreaking number of young people spearheading these negotiations and it's so important because we cannot have the same people trying to address the same questions and coming up with the same solutions which haven't worked for the last 30 years that's why we need new blood kind of injecting into these negotiations and that's why I'm really really glad that we have been training with the youth negotiators academy 60 young people young individuals from all over the planet to actually be part of their delegations and really being at these decision-making tables and defining the future of our planet and that has been really amazing to see how you know these young people who have been trained together but also have been building a community together are huddling in the negotiations and then no matter what country they're coming from they're actually drafting language because as you might know the UNFCC negotiations are consensus based meaning we need one language where every country needs to agree or at least not object and this is only working if we really work together and what young people bring in is this kind of passion this drive and speaking from the heart and lived experiences and I'm really really glad to see how this is changing now and I really hope that through this injection of young people you can see more intergenerational leadership where it's kind of driven by passion and love instead of kind of how can we kick each other out and how can we have you know like these very tough negotiations and how can we come together because ultimately it's our future and for us 2030 2050 or even 2100 are words where myself or at least my kids will be still alive and it comes from a very different point kind of having these time perspectives and that's why I think it's very very crucial that we have this momentum around young people and also global shapers in the space at the COP 27 thank you so much for that answer and I can also hear in you that that passion and drive that is so present in your work I am curious would love to know what do you think is missing if anything is missing from the UNF triple C agenda for COP 27 well countries have been fighting very hard to put loss and damage as an agenda item and before the negotiations actually started there were a lot of negotiations already happening to bring loss and damage on the agenda and I'm very very glad and happy that this actually happened because several of the young people you have been training have been reporting how their islands are already suffering from loss and damage right now or actually in the past and it's really important that this topic isn't the agenda and I really hope we can move forward with ambitious items this is already there and there is no standing alone item on young people which I personally don't think is actually a bad thing because I think young people are an intersection right I need to have the voices of young people in all the different items and that's why it's important to have them actually sitting in these decision-making tables and kind of bring forward how do we address the youth-related aspect when it comes to adaptation when it comes to gender how do we protect especially girls in loss and damage related questions how can we make funding more accessible when young people innovators have great ideas but they're excluded from the funding mechanisms so I think it's very important how we can mainstream the youth-related elements in these negotiations and this cannot only be done by young people themselves because I do truly believe in intergenerational leadership and it's a common cause we are fighting so how can everyone really contribute that the perspectives and voices of young people and especially the most vulnerable and also most marginalized young people can be included in all of these conversations and decisions and ultimately in the implementation thank you so much Marie Claire your your answers are informative thoughtful and heartfelt so I really appreciate learning from you thank you and best of luck for for the rest of cop we are going to transition to our next speaker already feel like we have heard so much information yes amazing absolutely our next speaker and our next guest is a namgye choden she's from our tempu hub in Bhutan she is a former curator she's a climate reality leader she also is actively breaking barriers to youth participation and decision-making as a foreign service officer and is also equipped over 400 Bhutanese youth in climate literacy so she is active in her community and also at these negotiations namgye rumor has it you have a very special pink badge if I'm not mistaken can you tell us more about what this pink badge means and give us some behind the scenes hi Natalie and Sophie such a pleasure to meet you over our video conference here as you know I am at the venue right now and it's been a long day having a pink badge means that I am part of my country's party delegation and I am actively taking part in the negotiations it has truly been an eye opening experience especially for me because this is my first time at COP and my first time in the negotiations amazing as an active member of the negotiations when you arrived in Egypt I'm curious what was your mission and mandate for COP 27 what are you hoping to see come out of this meeting I'll answer this from two perspectives so the first would be that my mission here at the COP 27 is to represent the interests of my country I am from Bhutan a small and least developed country in the Himalayas that contributes the least to climate change but does not exempt from the worst impacts of it I am also negotiating on the article 6 track which is on the carbon markets and within that we are currently discussing trading carbon credits between countries trading carbon credits with actors outside of the states but also to have an aspect of non-market approaches to mitigation you may have already heard that finance and money is the talk of the town and for developing countries there's a lot of expectations that we can establish a infrastructure and mechanism that is equitable that encourages more finance flows into countries that need it the most so where I am currently there's a lot of expectations riding on the outcomes of these negotiations so my mission here is to be a young voice here because I feel that we are at a time where there's a lot of skepticism about the multilateral process but when I come here and when I get to witness this for the first time I have not lost hope I am still very very optimistic and this is what I feel that including more young voices in the process brings to this entire institution that we have here that it is injecting a lot of hope and a lot of dynamism now going back a couple couple of steps as a global shaper and as a climate reality I'm also here to represent the interests of our larger community our larger world and I am here to ask our world leaders for more ambition and for more equity in the process you mentioned about more ambition and more equity I'm curious Namke when you think about the changes you'd like to see it also means action and I'm curious what actions do you hope young people will also take at the meeting but after the meeting too so I'm thinking about it in terms of my own lived experience here I am the youngest negotiator on my delegation and this is personally a this personally something that I'm very proud of but I also believe that we really really need to bring more youth voices into the international mechanisms for climate action but also at home I would like to talk a little bit about the global shapers Timpoha project the baton climate futures lab that was created with the intention of bringing more youth perspectives into the policy process because we really did notice that in the national policy discussions a lot of youth voices were missing because of a lot of existing barriers such as young people simply not being aware that certain policies and certain ways to address climate change at a systemic method at a systemic level exists so what can young people do I think it is crucial for young people to be ambitious themselves and to want to be in areas of decision-making I'm talking about politics but I'm also talking about government I'm talking about businesses so it's important for young people to place themselves in positions and places where they have a voice to influence decisions and it is not about consultations now but rather about collaborations between different sectors of society and where young people would have an important role to play there thank you namgay for joining us super helpful reflections from namgay of course we are ten thousand global shapers around the world many of whom are joining us for this session in over 500 cities in 150 countries and what namgay highlights so of course young people can shape dialogue from boardrooms to public offices young people have a role to play in really advocating for concrete change and holding people accountable but of course our young members who are on the line what we also heard from namgay is that you have implementation potential through hub projects through local initiatives we can reduce emissions we can conserve nature and biodiversity there's so much that young people are doing around the world particularly in the global shapers community so we're joined by three more representatives of our community let's move to who's next thank you so much up next we have Lucy Tom from the Beijing hub Lucy you are a researcher for climate change and sustainable development and also an organizer of global solutions festival which is an annual gathering of young change makers to solve pressing global issues coming both from the academic perspective and also the action-oriented perspective as I know you are a very action-oriented person how has this cop been for you which is also your first thank you Sophia so as you mentioned this is my first cop and I've always been excited to to attend this conference because this is where you know actions happen at a national level where negotiations happen and you know I come from a small town from Inner Mongolia and for those of you guys who don't know Inner Mongolia is the autonomous region north of Beijing and it's it's very deserted and my town is the town that that produces iron and steel for the country and from growing up I've always seen air pollution being part of my childhood and this has inspired me to become you know a climate change advocate and so it's especially exciting for me to attend cop this year and I think a few lessons I've learned during cop is first and foremost bring a lot of food and drinks I've been having a lot of trouble finding these and and so jokes aside the other thing that I really have thought about is prioritizing so I've realized that cop 27 is a magical place every everyone who is in climate is here all the youth all the business leaders the world leaders everyone who cares about climate is in cop 27 and so you really got to utilize your agenda and to see what you to to understand the topic that you're trying to under the trying to you know get into and to really utilize your time here and with that being said there's also another another thing that you need to be aware of which is to be on your toes and I've met so many business world leaders in on just on our on our way around and you really gotta you know utilize that opportunity to share your voice and to to tell them what youth are thinking about in climate thank you so much Lucy and those are some very useful tips for hopefully next year when even more global shapers can can go to the conference it also sounds like you're saying be dressed to impress at all times so well noted Lucy what is your call to action for shapers and for young people so I like to quote Gimway from the World Economic Forum here she's the head of the nature and climate team in in the forum and and during one of the comfort the panels that we had she mentioned that how she likes to mainstream the center for nature and climate and then in the next five years so that it's in the agenda of the business leaders and of the world leaders and I really think that global shapers and the YGLs could play a role here we oh I know that we have been drafting open letter but you know along the global shapers who are coming to COP 27 and I do feel like there has been a trend of global world leaders caring more about the voice of youth and so I really hope that we would be able to deliver this open letter to to the people who actually makes decisions at in climate change and I really and also to to be able to share the impact of global shapers as well as the forum at international opportunities like these thank you so much Lucy and that is something that we're working on together so I appreciate you mentioning it so I'll I'll get to work on it right after this thank you so much thank you for joining us and a lot to think about but we are going to move right along I like the balance between very specific logistical recommendations for upcoming shapers but also lots of high level recommendations for world leaders business leaders too so a big thank you to Lucy up next a familiar face to Sophia and I Alejandro it is nice to see you again up next we are joined by Alejandro Rene Dali Rivera he is a member of our Bogota hub in Columbia Alejandro we just heard from Lucy about the very real tangible important issue of air pollution I know you've just participated in sessions with the World Economic Forum's Alliance of Clean Air looking at ways to tackle our health and the health of the planet we also know of course you're a founding member of the Latin America Coalition for Clean Air you also are working hard on the integration of Venezuelan migrants and refugees in Latin America through your own organization I'm happy to see you Alejandro how are you doing today I'm doing amazing thank you how are you doing and very happy and excited to talk to you and all of the other global shapers active in Egypt I'm very curious mission message this session of course is called youth perspectives and call to action what has been your message at COP 27 so far and what's your call to action of course and thanks for the question and as Lucy was mentioning air pollution is a huge topic and I'm a forcibly displaced migrant from Venezuela that used to live in Colombia air pollution like forcibly displacement reminds me of how things that you don't control can directly shape your future I was born with asthma that it got worse due to air pollution when I moved to Bogota and what it was not a common situation to get asthma attacks just became my daily life and that was the trigger point to start a whole journey of over four years of mobilizing young people in Colombia to America to tackle air pollution and when I gathered these as a mission I think my mission is to empower young people to discover their their best version for the world and mine was a version that could use his voice to shape public policy but also inspire others to take action and in this case my me my goal here at COP 27 is to make sure that we put health at the center of the climate agenda air pollution now kills seven million people every year and just in Colombia every 15 minutes a person dies of this is related to air pollution so how can we make sure that air pollution is at the center of the COP agenda and that we're taking actions to save not the lives of our future generations but the life of our own children and our own families are currently affected by air pollution thanks Alejandro you mentioned of course air pollution do you think anything else is missing from the UNF triple C agenda this year in COP and what are the issues young people are raising to make up for this we're seeing a huge increase of different issues such as loss and damage of course there's a debate a giant debate around deforestation but I think when we're talking something that is seeing at COP but not really on the agenda particularly will be air pollution non-communicable diseases that are also increased due to the climate crisis and a particular issue that is keen to me because of my history that is forced to display climate mobility and climate refugees where there is a pavilion of climate mobility but we should be seen that as a center of the climate agenda and not just an appendix of loss and damage how many people from small developments island states but also from Central America and South America we're seeing huge amounts of migrants living from even from Brazil or from Colombia and from all Central America due to the fact that they no longer have water or that they no longer can cultivate their own foods so I think we're on a track I will hope to say that is that we're on the right track but definitely what we need here is more young people that know that you can definitely shape the future because we're shapers and we're shaping it and and for me that the message here is if you think that you cannot do anything to fight the air pollution of the climate crisis or the effects of the climate crisis in your own community please you can you can definitely make a difference you can make a difference and you must make a difference Alejandro we are wrapping up on the first week of COP 27 I'm curious as we head into the second week are there things you're still looking forward to or things you want to achieve in the days ahead I think I'm actually really excited of the difference like more informal meetings we have everything happens so fast at COP this is actually my first COP as well and we and the weekend we are gonna have some spaces informal gatherings to gather to meet with other people interested in our own issues part in my case for example kept climate and health so I'm really interested in knowing their stories and because I know everyone that is at COP or almost everyone is here because they care and I want to hear the stories behind them and also I'm really keen to know how they go this negative negotiations are going to advance and if we're going to see some real action on loss and damage in the agenda thank you Alejandro thank you for joining us nice to see you and we wish you luck for your activities in the week ahead last but not least we have one final shaper to talk about and talk with Sophia who's up next next we have Camilla and she can go by one name kind of like Madonna for example or Beyonce Camilla is our community champion one of our wonderful community champions she's been a member of our community since 2019 she is a bridge builder between the big players and grass root initiatives and heavily engaged with the Amazon rainforest communities she recently launched the creators Academy initiative creating innovative and strategic ways to communicate messaging about climate action and democracy Camilla you are also a frontline advocate I know for the most vulnerable communities and one of our as one of our esteemed community champions I would love to know what you would propose for hubs to do to really make a difference with within their region what have you seen work so far Wow thank you very much for having me I've been seeing a lot in our communities especially shapers they are like doing great things through innovative innovation I've been seeing cross hub collaboration I've been seeing people like traveling across oceans to help another shapers and I believe that our community can be an example and lead by example other communities especially because we are highly engaged high educated we are super connected with the real issues that our communities local communities are facing and I've been shapers doing a lot of things especially here in cop we most shapers are some of those negotiators or specialists and I've been and I really believe that we can like back to our communities local communities and share not just about the such as like humanitarian aids that global shapers are doing Pakistan or in Amazon during the oxygen crisis last year because of COVID so shapers are leading the way we are changing our reality right now so I have I believe and I help that we can share more about our communities especially here in spaces like cop not just to be an example but help them to find a ways to help us continue making impact thank you so much for that response I actually because this is the last question I'm going to allow Natalie to do the honors I believe you also had a question for Camila Camila it is nice to see you thank you for joining us Camila you just mentioned it's so important for young people to be conscious of the impacts of climate and I'm curious what are the most significant impacts of climate change that you see in Brazil and and what's your call to action as you're in cop as we close up today's session what do you want to share with our online audience okay Brazil right now say to the whole world that we want to stop the forestation and we want to protect indigenous communities and traditional communities because they are really holding the skies above us as a indigenous leader from Brazil said so we must I've been seeing like Brazil fighting against like bad policies I've been seeing Brazil especially the young activists they are like telling the world what what we need but also have been seen like behind the scenes a lot of scientists and researchers and especially the the health workers they are doing the real work right now so Brazil has the especially a special role for me at this cop because we on like we are responsible for taking care of the the most important tropical forest so if we not if you we are not engaged and committed to really maintain the forest stand and stop the forestation the global community will like you know ask us for answers so right now I think all the Brazilians that are here they're committed to show the the global community that we are able to stop the forestation my my final takeaways of course this cop is calling the cops the cop of implementation so I'm here like help I'm here like I want to see those type of implementations I want to see really finance for laws and damage I really want to see the proposal to mitigation and adaptation become real projects but you know we are not more we don't have more time to pilot projects we must act we know that Nate basic nature based solutions works we know which nature based solution solutions can be scalable so we must invest on those on those solutions and now am I also helping to hoping to see the youth voices and especially those people from like small islands indigenous communities being heard and also being part of the decisions to to you know receive and use those investments thank you so much Camilla for joining us for today's session for the work that you do in Brazil to combat climate and to ensure that those on the front lines of this crisis are heard and part of the process as well and of course thank you for all the work you do to inspire and mobilize global shapers in your region and around the world it is a pleasure to talk to you today thank you all right Sophia wow it feels like we have traversed the globe talking to global shapers from different regions different countries we've heard about the effects of climate change around the world I'm inspired by what I've heard and I'm also just moved by the level of commitment that our members are showing to these negotiations and their work year-round absolutely we heard from Marie Claire that young people bring the passion in the heart and then we heard that with all of them and we and I felt it yeah the passion and the heart and the expertise yeah and it was amazing to see those shapers who are active in negotiation rooms and who are really advancing the climate agenda so congratulations to you you work with these members year-round and what a powerful reminder of what global shapers are doing on climate I also want to of course thank our global shapers for sharing their experiences and actions we heard from our members of course who are on the ground in Egypt and this as we heard this conference is not about ambition raising like in Glasgow or commitment making as we saw in Paris but this cop is really about concrete actions to address the climate crisis and as we heard from our members there are many solutions that exist that need to be scaled and replicated and we heard about some of the concrete ways global shapers are doing this I want to thank Lucy Nam gay Marie Claire Camilla will and Alejandro for leading climate action in your communities and on the world stage Sophia as we wrap up this conversation I do want to ask you for all of the global shapers who are watching what should we keep in mind and what as a community should we be focused on in the days and months to come I think that it's essential that we acknowledge that the real-life count consequences of the climate crisis are felt differently by our members around the world this past year it manifested in deadly heat waves that scorched India and Pakistan with the highest temperatures ever recorded heavy rainfall attributed to climate change has spurred severe flooding and landslides that have devastated communities in South Africa and Brazil in Pakistan eight weeks of torrential rain triggered devastating floods that left one-third of the country underwater off the coast of Australia the Great Barrier Reef experienced its sixth mass bleaching event and in my home country the United States a mega drought gripped the southwestern region with 2021 seeing such extreme dryness causing devastating fires that it has now been classified as the worst drought in 1200 years so drought coupled with extreme heat also blanketed China this year shutting down factories and impinging on hydroelectric hydroelectric power plants these are just a few of the consequences of climate change but it is essential to remember that these that these consequences impact our community differently with historically marginalized communities bearing the brunt of costs and impacts this is why it is critical for global shapers to not only address climate issues within their own communities but for those with greater resources to find ways to support others around the world it is in the spirit we are calling on all global shapers all climate leaders to declare a climate emergency and we aim to reach 50 cities by our annual summit next summer and for those of you who live in cities who have already declared to work on and work together to hold your policymakers and industry leaders accountable we are here to support you I am here to support you Natalie is here to support you so please get in touch and join us our call to action is clear declare a climate emergency in your city and work with global shapers around the world for a strong and powerful movement to advance the climate agenda it is essential of course for our members to understand and to also raise awareness for the real intangible impacts of climate change on our members around the world so thank you for that Sophia I do want to leave this session on a note of hope and that I think is what we heard today we have seen how youth and indigenous led acts activism has led to an increasing number of leaders across government the private sector and civil society who understand the urgent need to address climate change as well as the benefits of immediate action climate action is really now becoming mainstream across all aspects of the economy and society from central banks and multilateral development institutions to mayors and ministers as well as companies and local community groups and of course youth mobilization the members of youth movements around the world have a lot to do with this so we cannot stop now we need to continue to accelerate climate action and as we heard from Lucy Namgye Marie Claire Camilla will and Alejandro young leaders must have the information power and voice to shape decision-making processes and that is one key focus of the global shapers community we are grateful to the passion and activism of global shapers who are online as this session comes to an end and other youth activists around the world you give us hope for the future of our planet thank you for joining us today and we hope to see you next time