Think about the places you love - COP31 Youth Climate Champion Sally Higgins

“Think about the places you love.”

For Sally Higgins, COP31 Presidency Youth Climate Champion, that means her farm in regional Australia, the creek around it and the parks in her local town.

Climate change is already affecting the places we depend on for food, water and clean air.

But protecting nature, home and community is also part of climate action.

Sally reflects on farming, food production, and the importance of protecting the places we care about; issues that deeply shape the future of younger generations.

Speak up for the places you love. Speak up to make sure they are there for the rest of our lives and for our children’s lives.

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The UNFCCC secretariat (UN Climate Change) is the United Nations entity tasked with supporting the global response to the threat of climate change. UNFCCC stands for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Convention has near universal membership (197 Parties) and is the parent treaty of the 2015 Paris Agreement. The main aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep the global average temperature rise this century as close as possible to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The UNFCCC is also the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The ultimate objective of all three agreements under the UNFCCC is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system, in a time frame which allows ecosystems to adapt naturally and enables sustainable development.

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