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Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Prince William toured a tropical rainforest museum in Belem, Brazil, ahead of the COP30 summit, speaking to young people working in green and climate-related roles. Starmer said the UK “can and must make a difference” even as the leaders of the United States, China, and India skipped the talks. He announced new initiatives for offshore wind and battery operations, calling for unity in tackling climate change and defending green jobs as part of Britain’s global leadership push.
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00:00Can I see a person who is here?
00:02Yes, yes.
00:03Oh, good job.
00:05I'm here to go.
00:07Go ahead and get to the world.
00:08Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:09Oh, good job.
00:10And you can go through us for a minute.
00:14Yeah.
00:15Yeah.
00:17Yeah.
00:18Yeah.
00:20Yeah.
00:21Yeah.
00:22Yeah.
00:23Yeah.
00:25Yeah.
00:26Yeah.
00:27Yeah.
00:28When we talk about the climate, we have to have young people in our minds because you
00:57have to live with our decisions, how long do we do? And so feel free to tell me your thoughts
01:02on what the next generation wants out of their leaders.
01:05Yes, we can make a difference and we must make a difference. Climate damage is one of the
01:24defining issues of our time and it's not going to go away. It clearly impacts all of us. Look
01:30at the flooding that we've had in Sussex or the wildfires in Scotland, more generally of
01:35course Jamaica and the terrible hurricane just in recent weeks. So it's not going away
01:39and we've got a duty to step up and show leadership on this. I strongly believe that by acting
01:46together as countries we can do far more than we do on our own and that's proven by what
01:52we've already achieved in the last 10 years. I don't just see it as a challenge either.
01:57There are huge opportunities here. Today I've been able to announce that at Great Yarmouth
02:04port we're expanding the port. There's going to be assembling of turbines to go out to sea
02:09for offshore wind farms. Same in Belfast and of course a battery operation in Manchester.
02:15So there's real opportunities here but only if we step up to the plate. And those that say,
02:21now is the time to look away, pretend climate change isn't happening, I think are just fundamentally
02:26wrong. Those that say we shouldn't go after green jobs of the future need to go and talk
02:31to those who are doing these jobs and tell them that they don't really value their jobs.
02:35I do value their jobs and I respect their jobs.
02:39And they map that 7% of youth living there actually face climate related issues.
02:51So it's this youth in the Amazon? Yes, exactly.
02:53Oh, okay. So this is really useful study. So interesting. And this for young people, did you say climate change is number one issue or number two, number three?
03:05I think it's really useful.
03:09I think the most important is that we need to invest in a right transition,
03:12an adaptation of climate change and an adaptation of climate change.
03:16So, you're interested in investing on climate justice,
03:22just transition and some people and things like this.
03:24So now, I told you, you may not have to be affected.
03:26The result of climate change and the Amazon.
03:29Are you involved as well?
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