A RIPON Grammar School student has been chosen to represent the UK at a major international youth conference on climate change.
Darcey Joia is one of 15 talented sixth form students selected from hundreds of candidates from countries as diverse as Lebanon, America, Morocco and Brazil.
As international Junior Advisory Board ambassadors - chosen for their extraordinary profiles and commitment to excellence, innovation, human values and ethics - they will take part in a series of workshops in Spain with top research professors in climate change and international relations.
Now in its eighth year, the annual five-day event is based at Spain’s IE University, which has campuses in both Madrid and Segovia.
Darcey, 16, from Knaresborough, will be tasked with exploring how higher education, within the context of international relations, can help provide solutions to the problem of climate change, and will present her ideas to a panel of experts.
She explained: “I was very keen to apply when I learned about the topic being covered. I feel quite passionately about the climate crisis, the way our world works, how ecosystems thrive and organisms co-exist.
"That’s what I’m interested in studying at university.”
The five-day conference will be held from April 12.
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