Planting trees is “part of the solution” to reversing climate change according to a young activist from Germany.

Teenager Felix Finkbeiner has been named a “climate justice ambassador” and is attending the UN Climate Change Summit currently underway in Paris, France.

He’s part of a group called "Plant for the planet" which is hoping to plant a trillion trees across the planet by 2020 as their contribution to reversing climate change.

He’s been speaking to Cristina Silveiro.

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