Our planet, Our fight: Climate leaders unite.

I've experienced more natural disasters in my lifetime than both of my parents have in their whole life. But we got so drowned in trying to reduce emissions that we forgot that there are others who are really seeing the impacts already. And we need to provide a mechanism to protect them. Only a little percentage of funding goes to adaptation. That means people like me grew up being afraid of drowning in our own bedroom. We saw people stranded on a rooftop. We saw people being washed away by floods and storm surges. Entire communities and cities consumed entirely by the water. My community flooded in 2015, the first time it had ever happened since my grandmother has memory. It got to a point where we have to see the effects of the climate crisis to be able to have an impact on negotiations. I feel what is happening right now is wrong. I wouldn't want to be an activist. I wouldn't want to come here. I wanted to be an artist and just continue my student life. But I feel I don't have. Once I know about the problem, I can just step back. I'm gladly not a politician because it seems like policy and politics, the change moves slow. I think today's leaders, they are far away from reality. It's all about money and not about the actual things that needs to be done to save the humankind. Sometimes it feels like I've been tasked with a candle and I'm being asked to carry it in a tunnel of darkness. And I don't know where I'm going. I just know that there's people next to me right and left also carrying that candle. But I can't pass it on behind me either because people are looking to us to lead them. But I don't know where we're going. That's what the future feels like. I think the more that we are in that political stage, coming from a strong climate activist background, this is where we can bring in the climate justice and the urgent action at heart and really drive our country and drive global leaders to do the same. Why do we have all the solutions in the classroom but you're not doing anything? But it seems you have a lot of solutions, which is very typical of a lot of professors actually. And what he told me was that it is his job to show us the path and to show us the way and to let us know the issues and the potential solutions, but it is the responsibility of the students to take that knowledge and do something with it. And that was the turning point for me. I just realized that the youth movement in general just get below 1% of funds from the biggest donors and foundations across the globe. And even below 1%, most of this funds go to U.S.-based youth-led organizations. So we have a long way to go. Hope is us. Hope is about us playing our role as much as we can. It's a fight. Some of us are afraid to have children. Some of us are afraid they won't even make it to the age where they can because of the climate crisis. And so if I do have children, and to my unborn children, I will fight for you. And I'll fight for your world so that we leave it better and that you're proud of the world you inherit. And CC tried my best. I did whatever I could. I worked super hard so that they have a life and they have a better, they at least have a world to live in. And if I'm able to do something to stop this crisis, I would think I would be really successful. Some of the things were beyond me. But the most important thing is to make sure that I had played my part when I had the chance to. If the natural world around us is destroyed, if there is more suffering at the end of conferences like this than dignified, qualified lives, I don't have anything to give my grandchildren except an apology. The problem is in the construction of consensus. Who has the right to what, why, for what purpose? Who is harmed? Who benefits? Where does the freedom of the other begin? Can species be classified as others? Or do we just try to make consensus among humans? Right wing, left wing, center. But that's so important to have some framework where you can work within. A framework that protects life of human beings and of their nature. A framework that is ethical and always relies on the truth. As I said, my strength is here. And I always have to look for the best for my community. Imagine if every single company and every single presidency in the world had youth advising them. And it's not only because of the things that we bring, but also the things that we represent. Now that the environment is on the agenda, the next step is to put it fully into the economy. We will fight to make sure that the next generation has a climate just world. And if that doesn't happen, the next generation will fight. We will keep fighting as a human species to fight for a better world. To ensure that we no longer have the profit-oriented system that we have today.