Young climate fighter from Philippines shows what's behind UN summit posters
Teen survivor of devastating typhoons grows into seasoned climate-change advocate. After missing school due to disasters back home this Asia-Pacific activist keeps pushing for real action at global meets
Climate summits draw youth whoʼve seen earthʼs fury first-hand: they lost relatives schools and ancestral places but keep showing up with un-broken spirit
Marinel Ubaldo knows too well what climate change looks like — she saw it destroy her home-town in Philippines when she was just a teen-ager. “It has become so tiring for me to be just a poster child“ she says about her role in climate talks (having seen two mega-typhoons wreck communities before she turned 17)
The storms didnt just take buildings; they stole months of Ubaldoʼs education because her school was gone — a turning point that made her fight harder. Now approaching her late-20s shes getting ready for her 6th UN climate meeting: where world-leaders decide on plans that will shape her generations future
Her story shows how young people at these meetings arent just asking for change; theyre living proof of whats at stake. Even after seeing so much destruction these youth advocates keep pushing forward — turning their painful experiences into reasons to make things better
