BACOLOD City – A youth leader in this city pursues his advocacy on the role of children in designing climate change policies as the Philippines’ only representative to the recently-held 2019 Global Youth Summit in Zurich, Switzerland.
The 21-year-old Elmeer Meeynard Calimpos is the founder of the Bacolod CORE: Children Optimization for the Revitalization of Environment, described as a youth-led organization with a heart for building a community of environmentally-conscious children for the children to their children, the nation, and to God.
Last month, he was one of the 60 young people chosen by international organization Global Changemakers to attend the summit from July 13 to 19 for the “solution” he initiated to address climate change and plastic pollution.
He is now part of the network of “global changemakers” comprised of at least 1,000 young leaders from across the world.
Several days after he returned to the country and to his home city, Calimpos told the Philippine News Agency he has learned how to live his dreams for his own community.
“I’ve realized that it’s not about the high points or low points of our undertakings, but it is about the incremental gains and the simple stories that happen each day,” he said. (With a report from PNA/PN)
