Two Climate Fresk Volunteers Explain the Project's Work at COP26

From left: Léa Francastel and Fanny Bernou

By Lewis Galloway

Léa Francastel is a climate education activist, working for Climate Fresk and an enterprise called Maintenant Sustaining Now.

Léa said: “It’s quite interesting because I’ve done a few workshops where I had young people in my participants and a lot of them were very engaged and they knew a lot. It was a good surprise to see how knowledgeable they are. We try and engage youth because they’ll be the decision makers of tomorrow.”

She explained about a program named Climate Education Kick-Off: “We have a train the trainer program where students can do a discovery workshop for climate fresk and do the training sessions and then they can become climate fresk educators themselves.”

Fanny Bernou is involved in Climate Fresk and is also a co-ordinator and volunteer for COY16 for Climate Fresk, currently on a gap year from studying engineering to be involved in COP26.

Fanny said: “We have the rocks that just drop from the mountain because we have ice, and that ice should be the concrete of the mountain but it actually is melting. It is very dangerous actually.”

When asked about transport in France, Fanny said: “My country isn’t doing enough. Trains are often more expensive than planes. You use so much more energy to fly, you emit a lot of CO2. There’s a lot of sing-songing but no real action.”