World leaders are set to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month in a bid to address global warming. Among those keeping a close eye on events will be many young people in the UK who, according to recent surveys, rate climate change as one of their main concerns.
Three-quarters of young people said they were worried about climate change, according to the campaign group Friends of the Earth.
Another survey, published by the volunteering charity V this summer, found that 88 per cent of 16- to 24-year-olds recognised that climate change will impact on their lives within the next 50 years. Three-quarters of those surveyed by V said it was important they did something personally, such as volunteering on climate change projects.
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