Leadership / Who will save the planet?

PresenterOne teenager walked out of school and made the world take climate change seriously.

Another wants the world to have all the facts on climate change.

KianniI'm disappointed because we are not only mourning the loss of our planet, but also the destruction of our futures.

PresenterWe will show you why they are leaders in efforts to save the planet, and how you can be too.

Thunberg is arguably the world's most famous campaigner on climate change. At fifteen, she stopped going to school and instead sat outside the Swedish Parliament demanding politicians reduce carbon emissions. Her strike caught on: millions of people around the world began protesting for more action to tackle climate change. Greta has travelled by boat, rail and bus to many parts of the world to raise awareness.

ThunbergIf we don't realise that it is an emergency, we won't be able to do anything about it and humans are social animals: we look... we look to the people around us and we look to our leaders for... for guidance and if they are not treating it as a crisis and they are not behaving as if this was a crisis, we won't understand that it is a crisis and then we will just continue like before.

PresenterShe has spoken at many global climate change events and shamed world leaders into action. She famously spoke at the United Nations, telling leaders they had stolen her dreams and her childhood with their empty words. So, what can you learn from this teenager who woke the world up to the climate change emergency?

PullenShe was very, very successful in disrupting the status quo, because her message was very simple and she was able to deliver it in very direct ways in the... face of a lot of criticism. So, she was very resilient. She was able to be incredibly disruptive in... in the face of world leaders.

PresenterGreta Thunberg had a simple message and a direct way of delivering it, both of which had a big impact.

PullenShe was other-directed and collaborative. She was democratic. All she wanted was to raise awareness and when people joined her, she wanted to be collaborative, whether it was with politicians, scientists, or... or schoolchildren.