5 more Young people to watch in Paris

After close to 2000 young people around the world applied to Last week we introduced some of the exciting new faces of the Climate Tracker team. Now is your chance to meet the next group of 5 exciting young people to watch at COP21.

Pari Trivedi

What do you get when you combine a passion for forest biodiversity, a prolific publishing record on climate change and a day job aiming to prevent sex trafficking across India? It might just be the type of dynamism you need to make an impact in the world’s biggest democracy.

Combine this with some creative, catchy headlines and you can see exactly why we’re excited about what Pari will pack with her to bring to COP21.

Sohara Mehroze

Sohara is one of the key young Bangladeshi voices on Climate, but contains a quirky side just as exciting as her ability to fill in resilience spreadsheets. Working with UNDP and the Global Shaper’s community, she will bring with her a world of experience in “shaping” change.

But as a feature writer and editor for the Dhaka Tribune, a singer and a poet, you can expect her creative side to shine through the shade of late night negotiations.

Add this to a no-nonsense approach to the “capacity limitations” of LDC’s and you have a powerful advocate for change.

“It’s critical that we ensuring direct access for developing countries like Bangladesh to finance for mitigation and adaptation”

But as well as that, Sohara believes

“We need to develop our own institutional capacity to overcome barriers of direct access, such as lack of transparency and accountability in climate finance expenditure”.

 

Ali Mohamed Ahmed

There are few in those air conditioned negotiating halls who can remember what desertification feels like. They might be able to talk about it, but Ali knows it.

Coming from Sudan, Ali has seen first hand how desertification can tear communities apart, and the great need for developing countries to adapt will be on top of Ali’s to do list.

But the great need to step away from fossil fuels hasn’t missed Ali’s journalistic gaze either, and you can expect this young tracker to keep the pressure on from all sides, filling Arabic news stands with stories from inside COP21.

Diego Arguedes Ortez

Known as El más Guapo to his fans from COP21, this young Costa Rican set the Lima conference on fire last year with his combination of hard reporting and visionary infographics.

This year, his unique ability to break down complex negotiations will be critical to the team and wider reporting. While COP20 was awash in great Latin American reporting, Diego will be one of the chosen few reporters from the region this year, and will have a vital role to play as he strives to “sexify” Paris.

Anna Perez Catala

Also joining us again in Paris is our proud Cata-Catalonian.

Her reporting on El pais led her to being named one of the Guardian’s “young climate campaigners to watch” and she certainly deserves watching.

Coming from a unique perspective of one of the most economically paralyzed parts of the developed world, Anna looks around to a lot of her friends and can’t help but thinking of the need for a “just transition” to a renewable economy of the future.

For Anna, Climate change is not just something happening far away, it is something that is critically linked to a sustainable economy for her friends and family.

Check out all of these young Trackers and watch their journey’s from right here on the Climate Tracker site