Episode 7 - Youth Speak Their Climate Truth

04/23/21 • 32 min

We are travelling back in time to December 2019 in Madrid, Spain. It was COP 25 Climate Change Conference and Global Yaadie’s first recording debut.

The whole world knows Greta Thunberg. However, let’s introduce you to youth from the Americas who are changemakers in their own countries. Following a youth engagement forum hosted by the Inter-American Development Bank at COP 25 Climate Change Conference, these young Latin American Caribbean climate activists share their experience and efforts in fighting the global challenge of climate change. They have huge expectations of world leaders but listen however they are taking charge on their own.

We are travelling back in time to December 2019 in Madrid, Spain. It was COP 25 Climate Change Conference and Global Yaadie’s first recording debut.

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Get the facts then get the vax.

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