2026 Teens Dream - Children’s climate education

2026 Teens Dream - Children’s climate education






Teen's Name
Varnessa kayen Varlyngton
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Teen's Grade
12th
Teen's Dream

My dream is to ensure that climate action does not end with our generation but is sustained by the children who will inherit the planet. This dream directly addresses UN SDG 13: Climate Action, by focusing on the often-overlooked question: who will sustain climate solutions tomorrow?

A child once told me, “If all the fishes die, we still have cows to eat.” This was not because he didn’t care but because of  lack of access to climate education. While we invest billions in long-term climate solutions, we rarely invest in the children who must protect, adapt, and sustain them.

My dream is a system where children are not excluded from solutions meant for their future—where climate education is treated as a right, not a privilege. My dream is to move climate education from awareness to action and ensure that climate solutions are sustained by the very generation they are meant to serve.

 

The UN SDG my dream most relates to