Cop26: Young environmental activist Scarlett Westbrook on why we need drastic climate action скачать в хорошем качестве

Cop26: Young environmental activist Scarlett Westbrook on why we need drastic climate action

At age 10 she was already canvassing in her home of inner-city Birmingham for the Labour and Green parties - with her parents trailing a few steps behind her - after being set a homework task to read about their climate policies in the run up to the 2015 Paris Agreement. She told her parents: “The planet is burning, if I’m not going to do it, who will?” Fast-forward three years and Westbrook was frustrated with the perception on the doorstep that she was unqualified to talk about the climate crisis. The solution? To self-teach an A-Level in government and politics in seven months, becoming the youngest person ever to obtain the qualification. Her specialty was climate and education, which in part led to her later work as a member of the UK Student Climate Network (UKSCN), where she started organising student climate strikes. Westbrook now heads up Teach the Future, the student-led campaign which aims to transform the British education system by centring climate change. In this capacity she has spoken at the European Parliament and Westminster, contributed to seven party manifestos and two draft legislation bills, which makes her the youngest policy writer in Europe. She won the Women of the Future Young Star award in 2020 and the Diana award this year. Out of an intimidatingly impressive list of achievements, the highlight for Westbrook was the September 2019 school climate strikes, where 7.6 million students worldwide took to the streets to demand action be taken to address the climate crisis. “Standing on top of the double decker bus we had as a stage in London and looking out to see 100,000 people all united for a better world was an incredible feeling.” Continue reading: https://www.standard.co.uk/optimist/s... Subscribe to the Evening Standard on YouTube:    / @thelondonstandard