The Climate Change Generation needs to be heard
The generation in school now and coming of age in the next few years are enduring a global pandemic and will surely have to deal with more adverse global climate events. Dr Anjani Ganase advocates that it’s time they had a say in the issues around climate change. In one month’s time, the COP 26 (Conference of Parties) will be held in Glasgow where once again global leaders meet to renegotiate climate targets. Since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the world has officially gotten one degree (Celsius) warmer and by the end of the century is projected to be 3 degrees above pre-industrial conditions. The Paris Agreement committed the world to curbing temperature rise to 2 degrees by 2100. The current trajectories reflect the failure of major nations to achieve their climate targets to date. One group that is very concerned about these failures are the younger generations -those born since 2000 - who were born in an already changing world and have always been exposed...