In this episode, Martin talks with co-chair of the London Climate Action Week Schools Group, Malini Mehra. Malini is the CEO of GLOBE International (http://globelegislators.org/), the environmental legislators organisation. She has more than three decades of experience on sustainability, gender, human rights and climate in multiple sectors. From leading international campaigns for Friends of the Earth International, Oxfam and other NGOs to founding an award-winning Indian climate & sustainability NGO, she has co-authored the UN’s Human Development Reports and advised the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, on UN reform. Currently, she is a commissioner to the Mayor of London on sustainable development, and an adviser to the head of the UN’s disaster risk agency. A keen swimmer, she founded the Teach A Girl To Swim (https://teachagirltoswim.org/) campaign to highlight the hidden global epidemic of drowning and connect it with the climate crisis and girls empowerment. She is based in London, where she raises her three children, and helped initiate the annual London Climate Action Week.
Martin and Malini reflect on the successes of this year's event, what lessons they learned from it, how the pandemic has changed not just the event, but the conversation around climate, and the need for a unified direction for schools to take climate action.
Catch up on events from this year's LCAW:
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