Grace Fong

Grace is a 20-year-old girl who lives in a small island developing state that is disproportionately vulnerable to climate change. Her work revolves around advocating for climate education and action. Grace grew up hearing about the threat of climate change to small island nations and feeling anxiety over the impending climate doom. To address this, she joined a climate education organisation called ClimateScience, where she learned more about climate solutions, youth climate action, and community organising.

At 17 years old, she established a national ClimateScience community team in Fiji, where she co-led and organised climate education events such as debates and workshops for youth in her community. She continues to work on expanding these projects to more students, schools, and countries in Oceania to help engage and educate more young people about science and solutions to climate change.

Now at 20, she is pursuing a double degree at the Australian National University in Environment & Sustainability and Applied Data Analytics, which she hopes to use towards working on climate adaptation and sustainable development issues in the Pacific region.

One action Grace would like everyone to take:

“Learn more about climate change and join a climate organisation! Use your influence, career, and privilege to push for equitable and just climate action now. Listen to the voices of the most affected and give them space to be heard, especially people from the Global South.”

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