The Australian teen climate activists fighting for change - BBC World Service

Bushfires in Australia in January 2020 destroyed lives, homes and wildlife.

A study by the World Weather Attribution consortium said that global warming boosted the risk of the hot, dry weather likely to cause fires by 30%.

Teenage climate activists Airly, Ava and Will want more to be done to tackle climate change in Australia, one of the world's biggest per capita greenhouse gas emitters.

This video is part of Project 17, a BBC World Service series produced in partnership with the Open University, in which 17-year-olds around the world look at progress on the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

"Climate Action" is Goal 13 of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, a set of targets announced in 2015 to transform lives around the world by 2030. The UN wants countries around the world to take "urgent action" to combat climate change.

Producer: Phoebe Keane Video Journalist: Eleanor Layhe

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I have been an activist since 1980. I will die knowing that these young people will be leaders .

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I am so proud of these future leaders. They were the adults in the room, and the LNP will go down in history as being on the wrong side. Susan Lee is despicable