COP26 poet is well versed on climate debate
FARNBOROUGH SIXTH FORMER READ HER POEM AT UN CONFERENCE IN GLASGOW
A HAMPSHIRE student recited a poem at the global COP26 climate conference at the weekend.
For nearly three decades the UN has been bringing together almost every country on the planet for global climate summits – called COPs – and this year is the 26th such conference.
The event, being held in Glasgow, began on Sunday October 31 and is due to end on Sunday.
Sixth former Renée Orleans-Lindsay, from Farnborough Hill School, was asked to recite her poem A United Solution during the conference on Saturday.
Renée described her participation at the event as “an exciting opportunity” to speak out against climate injustice and to add her voice to the discussions. She also hopes her poem will encourage others to think about how climate change ‘affects people disproportionately’ around the world.
Renée said: “Awareness has been raised but we need to see immediate change. Climate change is an imminent threat and there are things we can do really quickly. The theme of this poetry competition really resonated with me.”
The Sixth Former has always enjoyed writing and credits her teachers at Farnborough Hill for encouraging her love of poetry.
Renée’s poem was commended by judges of the international competition Poems to Solve the Climate
Crisis Challenge – the fourth partnership between The Poetry Society’s global Young Poets Network and People Need Nature.
The challenge asked young poets to respond to the UK’s COP26 presidency theme of nature.
Climate change is an imminent threat... The theme of this poetry competition really resonated with me