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Marie-Claire Graf, 21 years old, is a climate activist from Basel, Switzerland. She will attend the Youth Climate Summit at the United Nations headquarters in New York on 23 September. (2019)

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Swiss youth activist sets sights on New York UN climate summit

18 September 2019

The UN’s first Youth Climate Summit takes place in New York this Saturday where participants will include hundreds of young advocates from around the world.

One of them is 23-year-old Marie-Claire Graf from Switzerland, where her “Sustainability Week” initiative aims to turn universities into sustainable role-models.

In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson in Geneva, Ms. Graf explained how she hoped to encourage others to do the same to tackle the climate “crisis”.

Wide view of the General Assembly Hall at the opening of its seventy-third session, on 18 September 2018.

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15 September 2019

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It’s that time again, when the eyes of the world turn to New York, as world leaders fly into the city to take part in the General Debate that marks the opening of the latest session of the UN General Assembly, or UNGA.

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