Voices for a Green Future: Zaara’s speech for COP26

We asked school pupils across the UK to share their hopes and ambitions for a greener, more sustainable future.

Out of hundreds of entries submitted by children from over 300 schools, the four winners of our Voices for a Green Future competition received a VIP video shoot to turn their winning speech and ideas into a short film, to be premiered at COP26.

Zaara, aged 9 from Birmingham, wanted regular one-hour energy shutdowns to make savings, as well as the country only drawing electricity from renewable energy. Closing with a plea to world leaders, she stated "we have less than two decades to solve climate change and help the planet".