In the build-up to #COP26 the RTÉ News Digital Native Content team spoke to four young people as part of their Climate Matters to Me series.
They were asked, if you could, what would you want to ask the world leaders in Glasgow and what could they do to turn things around.
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"We need a global response with steps we can take on a local level." - Max Fulham
Max is a visually vision impaired 17-year-old from Dublin who is calling for more 'liveable cities'.
"This is our future they're making the decisions on." - Heather Doyler
Here, 14-year-old Heather from Co Tipperary calls for more climate change education.
"We should live as part of nature, not apart from nature." - Tim Sullivan.
Tim Sullivan is one of several young people who we asked to send a message to concentrate the minds of world leaders attending #COP26.
"The climate crisis does not have borders, we are one global community." - Theresa Rose Sebastian.
She is a leaving cert student in Cork who will be attending the summit.
Click here to see the RTÉ News report - COP26: The A-Z of this year's global climate summit
