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The youngest people in society will be living with the effects of climate inaction longer than anybody else.
World leaders are in Egypt for the COP27 summit, as campaigners and scientists warn that global carbon emissions are set to reach record levels and key milestones on slowing the planet’s rising temperature have been missed.
Egyptian student Laala Salem, 20, says she hopes the conference will encourage “actual change” in terms of policy as well as making citizens more aware of the crisis.
Twenty-seven-year-old Marshaba is originally from Uganda but is studying in Cairo. He says there’s no more time for world leaders to be messing about – they’ve got to be “action-packed”.
And Veronica Eskander, 31, says she would like to see more involvement from ordinary people rather than decisions being made “on a hierarchy”.
“They don’t have to be academics, they don’t have to be specialists,” she adds.