Sierra Leone: Young Africans Will Inherit a Climate Crisis – How Kids in Sierra Leone Are Getting Ready

If today’s young people are tomorrow’s leaders, they will inherit not only the world’s problems but also the tools and ideas to solve them. One of the biggest changes they will face is a changing climate. This means hotter days, more intense storms and floods, longer droughts, and big changes in where and when rain falls.

Youth need to be actively involved now in deciding how their cities will prepare for these changes.

We are climate adaptation researchers and university professors who study how…