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REPRESENTING Ireland as one of only two Europeans on a new Global Green Youth Forum has been described as “awesome” by an O’Briensbridge environmental activist. Saoirse Exton, (15) has been chosen as one of 14 youth leaders on a C40 Global Youth and Mayors Forum, which will work together over the next year to shape how the vision of a Global Green New Deal can be made a reality in cities across the world. The Global Youth and Mayors forum is part of C40’s Global Youth Initiative, announced by Mayor of Los Angeles and Chair of C40, Eric Garcetti, at the 2019 C40 World Mayors Summit in Copenhagen. Youth members were selected from each continent, with additional representation from continents with more than one billion people in order to ensure that the forum is representative of global youth and perspectives from across the world. Having applied to C40 Team, she was selected to become a youth climate change leader. “It …
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