As the final negotiating sessions unfolded at the “Conference on Climate Change”, youth from around the world lined the front of the Moon Palace conference center in a final appeal for a science-based target of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C in any agreements coming out the Cancun negotiations.
In front of a banner displaying ‘Climate Justice Delayed is Justice Denied’, they tried to count to 21,000, which according to Oxfam, represents the deaths resulting from climate-related disasters in the first nine months of 2010.
‘Climate justice means ensuring a sustainable future for communities and the ecosystem around the world,’ said Carra Cheslin a youth climate activist from the U.S. ‘It is imperative to protect vulnerable and underrepresented peoples who suffer from the harshest consequence of our climate crisis.’