{"id":275855,"date":"2021-08-15T15:45:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T15:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2021\/08\/1097722"},"modified":"2021-08-15T15:45:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T15:45:04","slug":"climate-advocate-fights-for-better-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/15\/climate-advocate-fights-for-better-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate advocate fights for better future\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the lead up to World Humanitarian Day, marked annually on 19 August, climate justice advocate Mitzi Jonelle is clear that the climate crisis is a humanitarian crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While most people consider the environment \u201ca scientific problem to be fixed by the scientists\u201d, the Filipino youth activist is determined to put an \u201cempowering human aspect\u201d into the climate crisis battle, involving \u201ceveryday people\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her optimism surrounding the ability of \u00a0youth to move the needle towards climate action is contagious \u2013 \u201cwhen we unite, there is so much power there\u201d, she told UN News\u2019s Liz Scaffidi.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2021\/08\/1097722\">UN News<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the lead up to World Humanitarian Day, marked annually on 19 August, climate justice advocate Mitzi Jonelle is clear that the climate crisis is a humanitarian crisis.\u00a0<br \/>\nWhile most people consider the environment \u201ca scientific problem to be fixed by t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1397,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287214,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275855\/revisions\/287214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}