good morning and welcome to the deanery garden at canterbury cathedral on this morning of friday the 5th of november one remembers that the 5th of november in these islands is a significant days when bonfires are lit and fireworks are used it's remembering an historic attempt to blow up the whole of parliament the king and members of parliament very early in the 17th century which was foiled but it causes us today not only to to think of all those fireworks and bonfires but at the same time to pray for those in public life and their safety because as we've seen by incidents across the world and here in the united kingdom they always walk in danger so we hold that in mind on this 5th of november at the same time it's the fifth day of the cop 26 conference in glasgow and this is a day which focuses on youth and public empowerment and community engagement with the voices being the voices of youth and so we will be thinking about that in our reflection once we've we've read our scriptures and thought about them too but i've come here into this flight because if you like these are not our baby chicks and pelts these are our youth and around me in the flight what have i got here we've got white silkies and we've got white pheasants and uh beautiful pekin bantums and a little malay cerama cockrell and then canadian black neck pheasants who looked most glorious this morning and the sun is shining outside but we are in this shall we say a microcosm of protection for these at this stage in their life protection from storms and protection from outside dangers as well which are uh really evident uh particularly at night so here they are while the older gang you can hear them and perhaps you can see them from time to time are outside puzzling at what we're doing these will join them and live a much freer life when they become a little bit older but for the moment this this flight is really like a microcosm of our planet because we sit in a protected atmosphere surrounded by the earth's atmosphere which is protecting us from all the dangers from from space the meteorites and also the the solar rays those things which can damage and it's it's that atmosphere that we're endangering at the moment by so much activity of humankind so we'll go back to that and and think about how we're using god's gift of this earth but let's begin our prayers on this moment this fifth of november oh lord open our lips and our mouth shall proclaim your praise visit us with your salvation and sustain us with your gracious spirit blessed are you sovereign god creator of all to you be glory and power forever you founded the earth in the beginning and the heavens are the work of your hands in the fullness of time you made us in your image and in these last days you have spoken to us in your son jesus christ the word made flesh as we rejoice in the gift of your presence among us let the light of your love always shine in our hearts your spirit ever renew our lives and your praises ever be on our lips blessed be god father son and holy spirit blessed be god forever the night has passed and the day lies open before us let us pray with one heart and mind does we rejoice in the gift of this new day so may the light of your presence o god set our hearts on fire with love for you now and forever amen we turn to our psalm on this fifth morning of the month and the psalm is psalm 24 the earth is the lord's and all that fills it the compass of the world and all who dwell therein for he has founded it upon the seas and set it firm upon the rivers of the deep who shall ascend the hill of the lord or who can rise up in his holy place those who have clean hands and a pure heart who have not lifted up their soul to an idol nor swole an oath to a lie they shall receive a blessing from the lord a just reward from the god of their salvation such is the company of those who seek him of those who seek your face so god of jacob lift up your heads so gates be lifted up you everlasting doors and the king of glory shall come in who is the king of glory the lord strong and mighty the lord who is mighty in battle lift up your heads o gates be lifted up you everlasting doors and the king of glory shall come in who is this king of glory the lord of hosts he is the king of glory return to our reading from the book of the exodus we read the first part of the israelites journey the children of israel the children of jacob as they have grown to be an emerging great nation but they are moving from slavery in egypt but have come to a dangerous point with the red sea in front of them or the waters in front of them and the armies of pharaoh trying to follow them up behind pinned in and we left them just there having grumbled at moses and aaron for having brought them to this pass which looks to them like a complete disaster when all will end in destruction and moses says only be still and trust and the lord will fight for you and you have only to be silent that's how we left it at the end of verse 14 of chapter 14 i'm taking up at verse 15 and today we'll read up to verse 29 of chapter 14 of exodus the lord said to moses why do you cry to me tell the people of israel to go forward lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it that the people of israel may go through the sea on dry ground and i will and i will harden the hearts of the egyptians so that they shall go in after them and i will get glory over pharaoh and all his hosts his chariots and his horsemen and the egyptians shall know that i am the lord when i have gained glory over pharaoh his chariots and his horsemen then the angel of god who was going before the host of israel moved and went behind them and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them coming between the host of egypt and the host of israel and there was the cloud and the darkness and it lit up the night without one coming near the other all night then moses stretched out his hand over the sea and the lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land and the waters were divided and the people of israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left the egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea all pharaohs horses his chariots and his horsemen and in the morning watch the lord in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the egyptian forces and threw the egyptian forces into a panic clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily and the egyptians said let us flee from before israel for the lord fights for them against the egyptians then the lord said to moses stretch out your hand over the sea that the water may come back upon the egyptians upon their chariots and upon their horsemen so moses stretched out his hand over the sea and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared and as the egyptians fled into it the lord threw the egyptians into the midst of the sea the the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen of all the hosts of pharaoh that had followed them into the sea not one of them remained but the people of israel walked on dry ground through the sea the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left yesterday we left them at an empath with the waters in front and the danger behind and now we hear this story written down after no doubt years and years and years of the telling as a significant moment of beginning of foundation of that new community that new nation there was a long way to go yet but let's just think of that moment of the fear still during the night of the still my doubts about the the doubts that people are having about whether moses is actually able to lead them in particular way it seems an impossibility to all of them in some way or another and we're now dealing with uh the activity of god and the activity of natural forces as well the waters for them parted and the people take the opportunity to be brave and go forward it's a community action it's a matter of trust the waters are still all around them but a path has been found for them through the sea and they go together forward they seized the opportunity for action when all had seemed disastrous they had looked back and seen no doubt the day before glinting in the sunshine all the array of those who were following them and now as the dawn breaks the way through the sea is found to be open and as they go through there must have been an enormous amount of fear amongst them but moses is there to encourage them to take action then seizing the moment when it came before there was no future now if they take action and they they do take action and move forward as a mighty host going through that path to find the dry ground on the other side and behind them the tides cover all that is uh and at that point too the looking back because that's the only view they have now looking back all that was threatening them has disappeared as the story is told it gets all sorts of of color added to it on the way through as you do with stories but we just note the fact that this had to be a whole community action going forward if there was to be a future there are moments of that kind in every nation's history when my parents when i was growing up spoke about dunkirk and the beaches of dunkirk in 1940 which was to all intents and purposes a huge defeat for the armies of this nation fleeing having been defeated fleeing and being along the beach and looking out to see that waters which were a complete um path and then eventually suddenly and you've seen this in films and wonderful films made quite recently when suddenly they look out and a multitude of little boats are there of people who have come to rescue them and take them away back home now i'm using this simply as a story that was told again and again and to my parents generation that moment of dunkirk became the seed of future victory over all that was threatening the nation and i never doubted it of course that was how the story was told it was told also by my uncles who had been in armed services it was told with the same kind of of vigor as the normandy landings which began to liberate europe in 1944 but 1940 was to all intents and purposes the defeat but when the story is told it was a story of before it looked as though disaster would mean that there was no future invasion of these islands would follow afterwards that was seen as a moment of miraculous rescue and here we're hearing the story of a nation being by the face of moses and the face of the people however small that lamp of faith was burning at that time was overcome so that the future opened out and looking back as the tides covered the path that had been opened they saw nothing but the waters so that now the waters became a protective barrier and pursuit finished from now on the journey which had other dangers dangers to their community life because of the way in which they perceive one another dangers because they still doubted the ability of moses to get them through but at the same time a future had opened up this is an image of salvation this crossing the red sea which is used so many times throughout the scriptures of the old covenant uh the old testament uh and the the the psalmists using it it's a a hymn of praise of the way in which salvation can suddenly come to those of faith so it becomes an image a sacramental sign but even more so in the new testament a sign of baptism and new life life rising from that which seemed dead the going through the waters and then emerging the other side to a promise of but day by day that promise having to be claimed and today as the people in glasgow many of the leaders have left their delegates there now but the speeches by virtue of the fact that they are streamed online across the world those speeches can still be heard some young people's speeches have been heard already as we'll reflect on in a moment but others are still to come and many of them have been voices from those nations most at threat we were watching earlier a young woman from samoa bravely speaking and speaking about the absolute danger that she knows and have people know their nation in the pacific to be in and and saying uh now is our time not to share our pain but to fight for the opportunity this is a resolving kind of fight fighting against that which is the danger in the climate fighting for decisions fighting for action and her words and she was saying they have a proverb in samoa which says that even stones are are in the end disintegrate perhaps but the the the power of words how you order your words what you're saying in your words whether they're sort of tempered by well we might we might not the power of words is strong and she urged the delegates dressed in the the colorful clothes of of samoa and bringing all the the the determination of those lands which is so threatened by the oceans at the moment and then another voice a young woman's voice from the indigenous peoples of the amazon forest you have lived there for thousands of years and that voice of a young woman from the amazon forest was another plea but also not an and just an anger and no action but the sense of positive creativity that there must be action because those forests as we've seen over and over again are the way in which we can begin to turn the matter around for the sake of all life on this planet and so many and particularly as we said yesterday the the the old the senior ones like our own queen like sir david attenborough are saying listen to the voice of youth for what we're doing is saving a world that will be theirs i'll come back to that in a bit but let's look at this fifth day as we remember this moment of opportunity to move forward as a community quite often as someone was reminding me the other day when we're thinking and speaking and doing things little is more but on this occasion we have actually to make sure that the the the little and the little is a total collection of small things right across the world joining each other listening to each other and that's what we're trying to do as a garden congregation at the moment to listen to the voice of the earth because that's god's gift to us and so many of the psalms talk about the life of the planet being able to shout and sing and give signs and warnings and all of these things say that at the moment we have to think great thoughts complicated thoughts but at the same time to take up the actions that we ourselves can become involved in to play our part in all of this the fifth day now the youth involvement has been prepared for by a conference in september in milan and there is a manifesto from that conference and delegates from that will be speaking as well and have already spoken on other days and the outcome of that summit meant that they are going to be talking about sustainable recovery and that that means energy transition and green jobs and adaptation and resilience nature-based solutions and the way in which financial flows can take place and how tourism and the messages we give and here's a lesson for canterbury the messages we give when people come here are messages that the youth want us to give for the sake of the planet because it's the years ahead that are going to benefit from any decisions made and the second thing non-state actors engagement that means things that you don't think of in political terms the way in which our food are being entrepreneurs our sports our fashion our arts and the way we perform the arts and what message they're giving all of those are powerful voices and then to become a climate conscious society at all times showcasing the impacts as we're trying to do day by day in this two weeks in all our education in schools and colleges and universities in our conversations in our public awareness in our community mobilization and in the media the same message constantly it's the time for action fletcher reminded me this morning that he and his friends in the 90s when they were discussing things as young people and with those who were teaching them and and those who at the same time were sending out messages in media just discounted the kind of conversations that they were having about this particular problem but consciousness was growing but now it's absolutely there if young people's voices weren't listened to then with seriousness they are being now and the standing ovation which was given to a speech by vinisha umashankar from india on tuesday that's standing ovation she is one of prince william's finalist for the earthshot award and she sees herself as an innovator she's 15 years old and her speech was very powerful indeed her innovation in india the idea of a solar powered ironing cart now ironing carts there are over 10 million are ironing carts but in in india where people come out with their ironing and their iron there because they have no capacity to have electric irons or irons in their own homes so they bring them out and at the moment charcoal and coal heat those irons but she has since um being an innovator thinking about it since the age of 12 has come up with this idea of the solar powered ironing cart taking away all the smoke and and poison from all of the the ironing carts as they are now and she spoke about clean technology and innovation she was a finalist in that area and it she reminded us that it's her generation that'll live to see the consequences of the actions of the heads of state who were there she got a standing ovation from people like president biden and boris johnson and and the prime minister of india and all of that as she spoke she said you are deciding whether we have a chance to live in a habitable world whether we are worth fighting for supporting caring for we have reason to be angry at the failure to deliver but there's no time for anger i want action i'm not just a girl from india i'm a girl from earth and i'm proud to be so i'm a student innovator environmentalist and entrepreneur but most importantly i'm an optimist today i ask with all due respect she said to the leaders gathered below that we start stop talking and start doing well there's the voice of youth on this day when the whole conference is listening to youth and thinking about community engagement and empowerment for all of us with small steps all these things we shall come back to but we remember that community of israel as they went forward seized the moment there was any one moment before there had been no future all looked disastrous but they went forward perhaps not with unbounded optimism but moses faith carrying them through so that a future opened up we have that one chance ourselves now and we're beginning to learn that daily and our conversations will talk about that as the days go on let's then say our prayers on this particular morning and as we do so we are continuing to keep the theme of all hallows tied where those who buy their lives have lit a flame of faith in so many myriad different ways here is the uh the collect for this week and we're praying today in the anglican communion for the diocese of hawaii which is a pacific nation so a good diocese to be praying for within the episcopal church of the united states and at the same time praying for this diocese in all its life because the diocese is stopped praying for individual parishes as we pray for the days of the cop 26 conference and decisions being made for our planet so we pray for young people in our diocese that their voices may be listened to and their concerns acted upon almighty god you have knit together your elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of your son christ our lord grant us grace so to follow your blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living that we may come to those inexpressible joys that you have prepared for those who truly love you through jesus christ our lord are men it's a moment first to say the our father in whatever language we like to use and then to hold silence for a moment for our own reflections our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom the power and the glory ever and ever are men moment of quiet and reflection [Music] me is [Music] yes [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] please [Music] [Applause] seriously [Music] yes [Applause] [Music] [Music] the peace of god which passes all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of god and of his son jesus christ our lord the blessing of god almighty the father the son and the holy spirit be upon you upon those whom you love and those whom you would pray for today and always amen remembering today that um our friend the dean of washington national cathedral is is holding the memorial service for colin powell and we think of all those gathering to give thanks for his memory today and pray for the congregations they gather there we ourselves have a funeral in the cathedral of one of our stewards who was a wonderful servant of this place and she uh she fought so bravely against her cancer right to the end so that also will be a great celebration of her life well young people you've been very very well behaved today and been an example to all at this stage of life and we're glad to have your presence here the climate crisis is a code red for humanity it is already devastating lives and livelihoods as usual the poorest and most vulnerable are the hardest hits the window of opportunity to prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis is closing quickly we know what needs to be done and we have the tools to do it young people have been in the forefront of putting forward positive solutions advocating for climate justice and holding leaders to account we need young people everywhere to keep raising your voices for a breakthrough in building resilience and ensuring that at least 50 percent of climate support is for adaptation to protect lives and livelihoods for developed countries to finally deliver on their promise of 100 billion us dollars a year in climate finance to the developing world for more governments businesses and investors to reduce their emissions in line with the 1.5 degree goal of the paris agreement this means that they must commit to net zero by mid-century with ambitious 2030 targets and clear plans to achieve them for ramping up climate education green jobs and fair and inclusive economic growth leaving no one behind i thank the government of italy for providing this global stage for young people to engage directly with policy makers and i thank the more than 400 young people for contributing your ideas and solutions in advance of cop 26. your solidarity and demands for action set a powerful example we need national leaders to follow your example and ensure the ambition and results we need at cop 26 and beyond thank you [Applause] hi so many of my friends have been asking me how i feel about this and to be honest i feel very nervous but mostly emotional last week i was with my friend and fellow activist evelyn and we were walking downtown and we found a large group of people but there's also a police track and usually when you find that it means something bad has happened so i was really worried and scared to look there and i asked evelyn if we can pass in another direction but as we passed evelyn insists and she looks back and then she tells me that she had seen someone's body in the police truck and the other group of people they were searching for more bodies it was after a heavy downpour in my country and when i got home so happens that my mom was also downtown the time when it trained heavily and she told me that one of the people who one of the people who had been taken away by the heavy downpour was trying to save his goods that he was selling from being washed away by the water because of the heavy rainfall so hi again my name is vanessa nakate and i live in kampala uganda a country that has one of the fastest changing climates in the world in the past few years i have seen more and more how the climate crisis is affecting the african continent which is ironic given that africa is the lowest emitter of co2 emissions of all continents except for antarctica [Applause] historically africa is responsible for only three percent of global emissions and yet africans are already suffering some of the most brutal impacts fueled by the climate crisis rapidly intensifying hurricanes devastating floods and withering droughts many africans are losing their lives while countless small have lost their livelihoods the droughts and floods have left nothing behind for the people nothing except for pain agony suffering starvation and death a recent world bank report warned that we could see up to 86 million people in sub-saharan africa alone displaced due to rising sea levels desertification declining fresh water and food scarcity over the past few months there have been deadly heatwaves and wildfires in algeria and devastating flooding in countries like uganda and nigeria and the un has declared that madagascar is on the brink of the world's first climate change famine tens of thousands of people are already suffering catastrophic levels of hunger and food insecurity after four years without rain who is going to pay for madagascar and of course this is not just happening on the african continent hurricanes immar maria dorian and harold have left some islands in the caribbean and pacific totally uninhabitable six million bangladesh bangladeshis have become displaced as a consequence of climate change by 2050 17 percent of the country's coastline will vanish underwater creating an estimated 30 million climates climate refugees the international union for the conservation of nature recently announced that there are now well over 38 000 species on its red list the best available catalogue we have of the species facing extinction who is going to pay for the lost islands of the caribbean and pacific who is going to pay for the communities who must flee the bangladeshi coastline who is going to pay for the thousands of species that fall off of the scientists red list and into the oblivion how long shall the land mourn how long shall the farms lay in ruins how long shall the hubs of every filled wither how long shall the animals and the buds perish how long shall children be given up for marriage because their families have lost everything to the climate crisis how long shall children sleep hungry because their farms have been washed away because their crops have been dried up because of the extreme weather conditions how long are we to watch them die of thus in the droughts and gasp for air in the floods what is the state of the hearts of the wild leaders who watch this happen and allow it to continue our leaders are lost and our planet is damaged loss and damage used to be something people thought of as happening only in the global south as we have seen in the recent months with wildfires in california and greece and floods in germany and belgium loss and damage is now possible everywhere everywhere i go leaders fall over themselves to say how they will achieve net zero by such and such a debt to mitigate the worst impacts of the climate crisis sometimes i hear leaders talk about the need to fund adaptation efforts where mitigation will no longer be enough and as we know there are far too little evidence of the 100 billion dollars per year that was promised to help climate vulnerable countries to meet these challenges in fact those funds were promised to arrive by 2020 and we are still waiting but there is one thing i almost never hear leaders talk about and that is loss and damage for many of us reducing and avoiding is no longer enough you cannot adapt to lost cultures you cannot adapt to lost traditions you cannot adapt to lost history you cannot adapt to starvation and you cannot adapt to extinction the climate crisis is pushing many communities beyond their ability to adapt why is it so easy for leaders to open up new coal power plants construct all pipelines and frog gas which are all destroying our planet and harming the present and future of their children but so hard for them to acknowledge that loss and damage is here with us now climate action is not a pick and choose yes of course we need to avert and minimize as much of the future impacts as possible but we also need to deal with a loss and damage that is already happening it's time it's time to take care of those who are most vulnerable from the climate impacts which are no longer avoidable loss and damage has been whispered about on the edges of past cops it's time for leaders to put loss and damage at the center of the negotiations and we need funding to help us deal with the damage that has already been caused that has already happened and the damage that we will not be able to avoid no matter how much mitigation and adaptation is put into place it's time to acknowledge that there must be additional funding on top of what has been promised for mitigation and adaptation and it's time for that funding to come in the form of grants not loans loans will only add debt on top of existing debts it's time for our leaders to wake up it's time for our leaders to stop talking and start acting it's time to count the real costs and it's time for the polluters to pay it's time to keep the promises no more empty promises no more empty summits no more empty conferences it's time to show us the money it's time it's time it's time and don't forget to listen to the most affected people and areas thank you [Applause] your excellencies ladies and gentlemen ours is a common mission to look without fear or despair at the challenges ahead in this crucial decade and to believe that we humans have the ingenuity to make this seemingly impossible possible but only if we put our collective minds to it i'm pleased to tell you that joining us in this room today are some of those best and brightest minds the eco innovators of our planets they are the inaugural earthshot prize finalists our second earth shot so relevant to today's discussion is fix our climate from bangladesh let me introduce eshrat waris from soul share who pioneered an energy exchange network allowing people to sell excess energy produced by the sun from nigeria olu olu banjo the founder ready which makes clean energy affordable through rechargeable solar-powered capsules and finally our winner vaittaya cohen who helped create who helped create aem electrolyzer in thailand is pioneering the use of green hydrogen helping transform how we power our industry and vehicles i will finish with an introduction to our 15th finalist who also happens to be just 15 years old vinisha umashanka who's over there from india is the brains behind a solar ironing cart with the potential to improve air quality by replacing charcoal with solar power for literally millions of street vendors this is just one of her many inventions she puts us all to shame vinisha we're all privileged to share the stage with you over to you [Applause] the solar ironing cut works on only one principle to eliminate the usage of charcoal and replace it with solar energy [Music] i saw the ironing vendors in my street using charcoal so i decided that i would do some research on the topic and what shocked me is that charcoal causes deforestation air pollution and even climate change it also causes respiratory diseases so i decided that using my interest in science i would come up with a solution [Music] i am located in a country india where there are over 300 sunny days so solar panels are the main source of electricity you can use it instantly now that solar energy can be stored in the battery which can further power the iron box for over six hours and if you increase the number of batteries the more the time you can use the solar iron and cut without solar energy though we have a lot of sunlight of course you cannot depend on it at night and most of the ironing vendors do iron into the night like 8 9 pm that's where the batteries come in [Music] now there's just one last feature a very loud horn to let you know that the ironing vendor is now in your street [Music] for the next two weeks of cop 26 we will speak about our future deadlines milestones hopes and fears i however am not here to speak about the future i am the future in 2030 by when we must halve our carbon emissions i'll be just 24 years old by 2050 when we will assess whether net zero has been achieved or not i'll be in my early forties and by twenty one hundred hopefully still going strong at ninety four the point is that the point is that me and my generation will live to see the consequences of our actions today yet none of what we discussed today seems practical to me you are deciding whether or not we will have a chance to live in a habitable world you are deciding whether or not we are worth fighting for worth supporting and worth caring many of my generation are angry and frustrated at leaders who have made empty promises and failed to deliver and we have every reason to be angry but i have no time for anger i want to act i'm not just a girl from india i'm a girl from earth and i'm proud to be so i'm also a student innovator environmentalist and entrepreneur but most importantly i'm an optimist today i ask with all due respect that we stop talking and start doing we the orchard prize winners and finalists need you to back our innovations projects and solutions not an economy built on fossil fuels smoke and pollution we need to stop thinking about old debates because we need a new vision for a new future so you need to invest your time money and effort in us to shape our future now just before we started the earthshot prize we all watched a video in which the former u.s president john f kennedy gave his legendary moonshot speech and here on the cop 26 stage today i would like to update that speech for the earthshot prize we the earthshot prize winners and finalists choose to by the end of this decade to protect and restore our nature clean our air revive our oceans build a waste free world and fix our climate and we are the proof that the greatest challenge that the history of our earth has ever seen is also the greatest opportunity we lead the greatest wave of innovation that humanity has ever known and we choose not to complain but to take actions that will make us healthier and wealthier and we choose to do these things not because they're easy but because they are hard and rising to these challenges will shape a new generation a generation that will build a better world for all of us and generations to come and on behalf of the oddsshark prize winners and finalists i invite you to join us i invite you to stand with us and we hope that you will give up the old ways of thinking and the old habits but let me be clear when we invite you to join us we will lead even if you don't we will act even if you delay and we'll build the future even if you are still stuck in the past but please accept my invite and i assure you you will not regret it and finally just remember when it comes to climate change there is no stop button we can't hit pause or even rewind we can only move together towards the future so united we rise and together we will definitely succeed thank you [Applause] please welcome climate campaigner brianna fruin [Music] when i was a little girl i was taught the importance and impact of words in my culture in samoa there's a proverb that goes it it means that even stones decay but words remain a lesson in knowing how words can be wielded how text can change everything how each word you use is weighted how switching one word or number could reframe worlds how climate action can be vastly different from climate justice how two degrees could mean the end and 1.5 could mean a fighting chance you all have the power here today to be better to remember that in your meeting rooms and drafting documents are more than just black and white objects to remember that in your words you wield the weapons that can save us or sell us out i don't need to remind you the reality of vulnerable communities if you're here today you know what climate change is doing to us you don't need my pain or my tears to know that we're in a crisis the real question is whether you have the political will to do the right thing to wield the right words and to follow it up with long overdue action if you're looking for inspiration on this look no further than the climate leadership of young pacific people we are not just victims to this crisis we have been resilient beacons of hope pacific youth have rallied behind the cry we are not drowning we are fighting this is our warrior cry to the world we are not drowning we are fighting this is my message from earth to call i hope you remember my words today and look closely at your words as you go throughout cup because it bala thank you [Applause] now please welcome to the stage chai sudo e my name is chais rui i'm only 24 but my people have been living in the amazon first at least 6 thousand years my father the great chief aumis rui taught me that we must listen to the stars the moon the wind the animals and the trees today they is warming the animals are disappearing the rivers are dying and our plants don't flower like they did before the earth is speaking she tells us that we have no more time a friend asked me we will we continue to think that today's injuries can be resolved with ointments and painkillers even though we know that two more our owns will only run deeper we need a different path and with both and global changes it's not 2030 or 2050 it's now while you are closing your eyes to reality the land defender arrived wow my friend signs i was a kid was murder for protecting the forest indigenous peoples are in the front line of the climate emergence and we must be at the center of the decisions happen here we have ideas to postpone the end of the world let us stop emptying lies in fake promise let us end the pollution of hollow words and let us fighting for a livable future and present it's always necessary to believe the dream is possible may our topia be a future on earth thank you [Applause] [Music] uh [Music] [Music] foreign so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] ah [Music] ah [Music] you