MINORI, 16, FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE, JAPAN
“I want a future where no one is suffering from the climate crisis anymore,” Minori says. We’re in the kitchen of the ‘FFF Hub’, a community center lent out to Fridays for Future activists as a space to gather outside of the COP venue. “Before I came to COP26, my focus was to protect our future. But here, I’ve learned that MAPA (Most Affected People and Areas) people are suffering right now. So, to stop climate change, I have to be focused on what’s happening now.” Despite being at COP, Minori has no hope for the summit. Instead her “hope comes from fellow activists who are taking action against climate change” rather than from “government policies and strategies.”
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