
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Youth activists have been meeting on the twin island nation of Antigua and Barbuda this weekend to ensure their voices and call for action is heard loud and clear by world leaders assembling for the SIDS4 conference.
With their personal “wall of commitment” around 80 passionate young changemakers attending the SIDS Global Children and Youth Action Summit have been committing themselves to more action and taking the long view that the climate crisis is make or break for their generation of small islanders.
UN News’s Matt Wells who’s in Antigua, spoke to organizer Ashley Lashley and one of the youngest attendees, Noah Herlaar-Hassan, about what they hope SIDS4 will achieve and why it’s vital to listen to young voices.
By United Nations4.6
55 ratings
Youth activists have been meeting on the twin island nation of Antigua and Barbuda this weekend to ensure their voices and call for action is heard loud and clear by world leaders assembling for the SIDS4 conference.
With their personal “wall of commitment” around 80 passionate young changemakers attending the SIDS Global Children and Youth Action Summit have been committing themselves to more action and taking the long view that the climate crisis is make or break for their generation of small islanders.
UN News’s Matt Wells who’s in Antigua, spoke to organizer Ashley Lashley and one of the youngest attendees, Noah Herlaar-Hassan, about what they hope SIDS4 will achieve and why it’s vital to listen to young voices.

32,007 Listeners

7,601 Listeners

4,164 Listeners

5,747 Listeners

1,052 Listeners

295 Listeners

14 Listeners

43 Listeners

5 Listeners

5 Listeners

95 Listeners

25 Listeners

9 Listeners

16 Listeners

309 Listeners

145 Listeners

112,360 Listeners

652 Listeners

1,326 Listeners

2,548 Listeners

4 Listeners

16 Listeners

8 Listeners

9 Listeners

621 Listeners

4 Listeners

4 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners