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Thanks to Yale Climate Connections for this:

High schoolers helped develop Tuscon’s climate action plan

They may not be able to vote yet, but they’re already having an influence.

In the past few years, young people have made headlines with their fight against climate change.

The Arizona Youth Climate Coalition was created in 2019 during a global wave of school strikes.

The group still organizes protests, but members also work with local leaders to enact climate policies.

Emilia Kim is a high school student in Tucson and the group’s policy director.

Kim: “I’ve talked with a couple of different legislators at the state level. … On the local level, we do a lot of things like lobbying school boards.”

The coalition recently helped the city of Tucson develop its new climate action and adaptation plan, and Kim says members are now pushing the city to achieve those goals.

Kim: “The biggest thing for us is actually getting people to implement the actions that they’re saying they’re going to implement.”

Many of the group’s members are still too young to vote…

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