Xiye Bastida's TIME100 Impact Dinner Toast at COP31

Summary

Xiye Bastida, a 2023 TIME100 Next honoree, ended the night by reminding attendees what role the COP conferences play when it comes to the global climate conversation. “We come here because we have a bigger responsibility to the future, to our communities, to equity, to just transitions.” Bastida, who co-founded the Re-Earth Initiative, a youth-led climate justice nonprofit, described meeting with U.N. Secretary General António Guterres earlier in the day, who told a room full of youth climate leaders that they had inspired him to speak boldly on climate action. “He told us, 'The reason why my…

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