Thousands of people will travel to Brazil for the global climate conference, COP30, on Monday – and among them are two students from the University of Birmingham.
Heads of state, diplomats, activists, and delegations from 200 countries will attend the event in Belém, in the Amazon rainforest.
The annual United Nations meeting takes place 10 years after the Paris climate agreement, in which countries pledged to try to restrict the rise in global temperatures to 1.5C.
Benika Lal, a geography student at the university, said: “The focus [at COP30] is on youth voices and how we can contribute to our own future. At previous COPs young people haven’t always been included.”