Goal 13: Action on climate change
After Australia鈥檚 most intense bush fire season ripped through 17-year-old Ashlee鈥檚 home town, she's been finding out what action is being taken to tackle climate change.
In 2015 the United Nations announced a radical plan to change the world.
Global leaders drew up a list of 17 "sustainable development goals" to create a blueprint for a better future. The goals cover things like gender equality, health provision, a good education and much more. We've asked 17-year-olds from 17 different countries to tell us what they think needs to change if the world is to meet those goals by 2030.
Australia鈥檚 most intense bush fire season changed 17-year-old Ashlee鈥檚 life. She lives in a town called Mallacoota, in one of the worst-hit areas, where many people lost their homes. Images were beamed around the world of people cowering on beaches under a red sky. The bush fire season from 2019-2020 burned through 24 million hectares of land, 3,000 homes were lost. Scientists say the impacts of climate change are contributing to longer and more severe bush fire seasons, so Ashlee wants to find out how her country is being affected and what action is being taken to get global warming under control.
Presenter: Sana Safi
Producer: Phoebe Keane
Project 17 is produced in partnership with The Open University
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Seventeen 17-year-olds tell us what they want from the UN Sustainable Development Goals