EAST MARSH TEENAGER IS PASSIONATE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT: “WE ARE THE GENERATION WHICH IS GOING TO INHERIT THIS PROBLEM AND WE SHOULD HAVE A SAY IN WHAT HAPPENS”
A local East Marsh teenager is representing youngsters from the
Leon received £500 of Fairshare Youth funding from local community group East Marsh Involve to assist him to attend the conference and said “that he was grateful to them for assisting him to be able to attend the conference.”
Leon on his return will be giving a talk on the conference to East Marsh Involve and is also playing his part in improving the area environment by being an active member of East Marsh Involves’ Environmental Sub-Group.
The Franklin College student said: “I am passionate about climate change. I want to do all I can to make sure the opinions of young people are heard at this conference.
“We are the generation which is going to inherit this problem and we should have a say in what happens.
“As a reporter out there I will be able to ask the questions that young people want to know the answers to.”
The climate conference began on Monday and is scheduled to last 12 days, with US president Barack Obama due to attend in the final days.
More than 15,000 delegates and 45,000 green activists are due to descend on the Danish capital during the meeting, which has been described by British economist Lord Stern as “the most important since the Second World War”.
They will be joined by at least 5,000 journalists and 100 world leaders.
