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-I basically grew up in the climate crisis.

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I grew up being afraid of drowning in my own bedroom.

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I would have to huddle in the dark with my family sometimes

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because there would be no electricity, and we're listening

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to a battery-powered radio to try to hear

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if we need to evacuate our home.

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I didn't even know that what I was experiencing

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was climate change or the climate crisis

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that I was learning about in school.

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-Baluchistan is extremely affected by the climate crisis.

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Even when I was 6 years old, I lost my home.

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And, like, two to three months ago, there was a flood.

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Many people lost their lives.

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-In 2017, when there was a drought in Nairobi

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and my school did not have water storage facilities.

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And because of that, accompanied with the drought,

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we did not have water in my school for weeks.

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-We have been facing repetitive cyclones.

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There has been forest fires, and, there has been floods.

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And if I see this from the lens of indigenous communities,

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it feels like we have we have been protecting the nature.

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Yet, we are the ones who are most affected by

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the impacts of climate crisis.

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-We have more than double people in Dhaka

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and all this from internal [climate] migration.

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People don't have enough places to live,

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so they have to live in a slum.

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-It's not easy to be a climate activist in Baluchistan,

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so I started working secretly within my school.

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We don't have freedom, free speech.

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We can't just publicly protest.

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Even Fridays for Future Baluchistan

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has been warned that we should not protest.

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-It is very difficult to be in the front line

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of safeguarding the forest and biodiversity.

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There has been immense deforestation

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and land-grabbing and displacement

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because of extractive developmental projects.

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We [indigenous communities] are living

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under the threat of eviction.

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-I want to see world leaders at COP26 in Glasgow

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start to discuss real solutions.

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-We need drastic emissions cuts, and not the type of

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climate pledges that we're seeing where they're saying

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"net zero by 2050 or 2030," and it's just all these promises

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and pledges without actual plans

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and no milestones and no short-term goals.

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And it's mostly just creative accounting on how to get to

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"lower their emissions," but really

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they're not changing anything.

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They're just counting differently.

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-If there was something meaningful that I would say,

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"Okay, COP26 has achieved something," is meeting

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the annual $100 billion climate finance agreement.

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-One very concrete action that I would ask world leaders to take

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is for the debt of global south countries

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caused by climate impacts to be canceled.

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Most of climate finance comes in the form of debt.

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So when you're impacted by the climate crisis and

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you're trying to adapt or you're trying to deal with the loss

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and damages, you have to borrow money

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from the global north countries and go into debt

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and have to pay so much interest

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because of the climate impact that the global north caused.

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So where is the accountability?

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-Nobody talks about loss and damages.

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When they talk about it, they think, like,

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"Okay, what do we lose when climate catastrophe happens?"

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"Yes, another home. Some people's house."

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That's what loss and damages is.

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But it's more than just a house or some people's lives.

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We are losing our culture.

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-Extractive developmental projects leads to displacement,

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leads to land-grabbing, leads to migration.

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And thus, it also leads to loss of traditional knowledge

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and practices of indigenous communities.

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I would like to see the countries commit to

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recognize the rights of indigenous people

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over their land, forest, and territories

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in their NDCs [Nationally Determined Contributions].

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-The [energy] transition has to be fair.

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Whether it's putting up solar panels

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and that those solar panels are concentrated and amassed

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by more than a single person or a single capital entity.

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Workers have to be taken into account.

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The truth is that we won't save ourselves with pretty speeches.

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What saves us are public policies,

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real agreements, financing.

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So that's what I want to see at COP26.