{"id":911,"date":"2019-11-11T12:03:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T19:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/?p=911"},"modified":"2019-11-11T12:05:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T19:05:38","slug":"climate-2020-summit-centers-on-youth-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/?p=911","title":{"rendered":"Climate 2020 Summit centers on youth voices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Summit organizers Kate Petersen and Bruce Hungate share their team&#8217;s intentional focus on youth for the Climate 2020: Seven Generations for Arizona summit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Melissa Sevigny, Reporter with KNAU<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Teenage climate activists have gained global attention this year. Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden inspired widespread school strikes in September, and indigenous hip-hop artist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is part of youth-led lawsuit against the U.S. government to secure the right to a stable climate. Youth voices will be at the center of this  week\u2019s Climate Summit in Flagstaff. It will bring together scientists from all three state universities as well as a diverse group of health professionals, environmentalists, tribal members, writers, and artists.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read and listen the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knau.org\/post\/upcoming-climate-summit-flagstaff-centers-youth-voices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"here (opens in a new tab)\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>I think it\u2019s really important to include and invite youth to a conversation like [the Climate 2020 Summit], where you\u2019re looking at a global scale phenomenon that\u2019s unfolding at a rate where the impacts are most  strongly felt by them. They have to be part of it. They have to not just be a part of it, they have to be invited to a leadership role. <\/p><cite>Dr. Bruce Hungate, Director of the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at Northern Arizona University<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summit organizers Kate Petersen and Bruce Hungate share their team&#8217;s intentional focus on youth for the Climate 2020: Seven Generations for Arizona summit. By Melissa Sevigny, Reporter with KNAU &#8220;Teenage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[30,8,18,29,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate2020arizona.nau.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}