Season 3, Episode 18: Paul

On Climate Action Figures, host John Whidden interviews Paul Jenkinson. Paul explains how young people can connect with the climate movement through YOUNGO, the UN’s children and youth constituency, and describes co-facilitating YOUNGO’s Global Youth Statement—a major youth declaration with multiple versions (including five key demands) built from individual, organizational, and over 100 national youth conference inputs. He recounts presenting key demands to UN Secretary-General António Guterres and compares COPs in Dubai, Baku, and Brazil, calling Brazil the most chaotic logistically but more emotionally engaged politically. Paul also discusses European Young Engineers, his work designing net-zero-ready district heat networks in London, AI’s promise and regulatory risks, responses to renewable intermittency concerns, his reuse habit using jars at home, and hope from global youth collaboration.

00:00 Welcome to the Show

00:27 QuickFix Toy Car Library

01:13 Meet Paul Jenkinson

02:42 Finding Climate Networks

04:24 Joining Youngo via EYE

05:56 Global Youth Statement Explained

07:31 How the Statement Is Built

09:14 Presenting to UN Leaders

10:30 Inside the Brazil COP

12:13 Europe Views the UN

13:31 European Young Engineers

15:39 Paul’s Low Carbon Job

16:21 Heat Networks and AI

18:16 Answering Renewables Critics

20:53 Paul’s Climate Action Tip

21:36 Hope and Closing Thanks

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VPBDApCMj3s5gpbezkMDGMrFfOtBe8CK

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