A handful of major states resisted pressure on Sunday to ramp up efforts to combat global warming as a U.N. climate summit ground to a close, angering smaller countries and a growing protest movement that is pushing for emergency action.
With children and young people increasingly at risk from extreme weather and out in the streets demanding faster action on global warming, efforts to respect and promote their rights in climate policy need to step up.
German schoolteacher Verena Brunschweiger is part of a growing movement of women and young people who have vowed not to have a families out of concern about a looming climate change crisis.
