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
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