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.