Blaithin, 17, and Niamh, 16, from St Catherine’s College Armagh, were leading the event, which was organised by the British Council, as UN secretary generals.<\/p>\n
They were tasked with bringing all the participants to an agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, supporting developing nations and adapting to the effects of climate change.<\/p>\n
Blaithin said despite COP30 taking place thousands of miles away, it was important to her generation.<\/p>\n
“As a young person, knowing that we will face the impact of what’s going to happen in the future, it’s very relevant that we understand what is going on,” she said.<\/p>\n
“We have to live the life that’s going to be controlled by what happens today.”<\/p>\n
Niamh thinks more could be done to educate young people about climate change.<\/p>\n
“Social media is a big part of young people’s lives, so I feel if we took more to social media for climate action, it would really influence young people today,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blaithin, 17, and Niamh, 16, from St Catherine’s College Armagh, were leading the event, which was organised by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-265629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}