Global leaders at the 2018 UN Climate Change Conference were powerfully reminded by Greta Thunberg that, “You say you love your children above all else. And yet you are stealing their future.”1 In less than 7 months, the 16-year-old environmental activist mobilised a global movement of young people in over 120 countries calling for urgent action to address climate change.2 Young people elsewhere are catalysing important conversations on crucial issues, such as Malala Yousafzai on global education and March for Our Lives on reforming gun control in the USA.
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