“I want you to panic,” 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg told world leaders at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting earlier this year. Over the past few years, young people have rallied older generations to act more promptly on the issue of climate change. Known to be the largest climate strike in world history, the September 20th Youth 4 Climate strike drew around 4 million protesters, many of whom were schoolchildren. Expected to reach 1.3 billion people by 2030, the world’s young population will constitute the bigger part of those affected by climate change. Noura Abdel Ghafar, founder of ‘Mona5na’ (Our Climate), wants to create a new generation of Egyptian youth that have better climate literacy and knowledge in order to effectively face the challenges of the future. “I want to help young children grow and become a generation that is fully aware of the future issues facing them,” Abdel Ghafar tells Egyptian Streets. “They are the ones who will lead the world in the next couple of years.” With a special interest in the environment from a young age, Abdel Ghafar first studied chemical engineering at university before moving…
‘Mona5na’: the Startup Raising Egyptian Youth’s Awareness on Climate Change
October 1, 2019
