Cork student among 500 young people attending first UN Youth Climate Summit in New York

An Irish student activist who has been selected to attend the UN’s first youth climate summit says she hopes young people can convince global leaders to tackle the climate crisis at the scale and pace required to save the planet.

Sarah Collins, 19, from Cork, was speaking after being selected as one of 500 young people from around the world to attend the first UN Youth Climate Summit in New York on September 21.