Giving Compass' Take:

• Katie Couric interviews Christina Figueres, Founding Partner of Global Optimism, and former Secretary of the UN Climate Convention to discuss the trajectory of her fight against climate change.

• How are you supporting youth-led climate activism? Does it look different than your fight against climate change? 

• Read about how feedback is part of youth-led climate strikes. 

Katie Couric in conversation with Christiana Figueres at the 10th Annual Social Good Summit 2019:

Katie Couric: Thank you for spending some time inside on this probably last beautiful summer day to hear from some of these amazing people, including my guest here, beside me, Christiana Figueres who really has been so instrumental in bringing to the fore the climate change debate...

KC: Were you surprised when you saw so many young people start to get behind this issue, when you hadn't, say, even five years ago?

Christiana Figueres: Definitely not five years ago. So, exactly five years ago, September 2014, together with many fantastic people, there was a mass demonstration in the streets of New York and around the world. The tone of that demonstration was support and encouragement to governments to change what had seemed until then, an impossible task, which was to come to an agreement about how we are going to deal with climate change on a global level, to change that to make it possible. Hence a year and a little bit after, we had the Paris Agreement, but that was a movement of support and encouragement to governments. Now we have a very different tone, Katie, right? Now it's five years later, we know it's possible. We know there are many benefits to be had; we know that we have the capital; we know what the policies are; we have the technology.  Why the heck haven't you done your job? It's a very different tone, right? It's a tone of what I call outrage.

Watch the full video about climate change discussion from Mashable.