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By Gloria Dickie and Mai ShamsElDin

COP27: Children from Global South make their presence felt at climate summit

Licypriya Kangujam, 11, environmentalist and climate activist, founder of The Child Movement, speaks to Reuters during an interview at the COP27 climate summit in Red Sea resort at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 15, 2022. REUTERS/Emilie Madi

Eleven-year-old Indian climate activist Licypriya Kangujam's dogged questioning of Britain's climate minister Zac Goldsmith about the fate of climate activists detained in his country was one of the most striking moments in the COP27 global warming talks so far.

"We need to hold lawmakers accountable for their political decisions," she later told Reuters.

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