To finish up our week looking at Rio+20, we’re taking something of a then and now approach. In 1992 at the first Rio summit, Severn Suzuki, who was 11 years old at the time, addressed UN delegates. She became known as the “girl who silenced the world for six minutes.” Now, 20 years on, Suzuki […]
Friday Fav: Anjali Appadurai
Anjali Appadurai addressed the delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa last month. She spoke on behalf of the world’s youth – which accounts for half of the world’s population – and reminded the governments present that it was the future of her generation and successive generations that was at […]
