Penelope Lea Explained

Penelope Lea
Birth Place:Kjelsås, Oslo, Norway
Known For:Environmentalism, climate change mitigation

Penelope Lea is a Norwegian climate activist who became the second-youngest ambassador for UNICEF at the age of 15.

Activism

Lea is from Kjelsås, Oslo. Her mother is a children's book writer.[1] When she was eight, Lea joined the Eco-Agents, a youth climate group. She gave her first speech aged nine at a Nature and Youth national camp. She was elected as a board member of the Eco-Agents when she was 11. At twelve, Lea was one of seven people to join the Children's Climate Panel, founded by the Eco-Agents.[2]

In 2018, Lea became the youngest nominee for the (Volunteer Award), at the age of fourteen.[2] She won the award and donated the (in 2019) prize to a lawsuit filed jointly by Greenpeace and Nature and Youth against the Norwegian government for its oil contracts.[3]

In 2019, Lea became a climate advisor to Knut Storberget and was a youth ambassador for Norway at the UNICEF summit for World Children's Day.[4] [5] In October 2019, Lea became the first climate ambassador for UNICEF; her age of 15 made her the second-youngest UNICEF ambassador in history.[6] [7] [8] She was the fifth Norwegian ambassador and the first to be appointed since 2007.[9] At the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25), Lea was one of five child activists to speak at an event organized by UNICEF and the OHCHR.[10]

Books

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Når de voksne ikke klarer å redde fremtiden, må Penelope Lea (14) gjøre det. D2. Ingrid Røise Kielland. 20 June 2019. 26 April 2021. 16 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210116145935/https://www.dn.no/d2/profil/ledestjerner/klima-og-miljo/penelope-lea/nar-de-voksne-ikke-klarer-a-redde-fremtiden-ma-penelope-lea-14-gjore-det/2-1-614377. live.
  2. Web site: Penelope Lea (14) er så engasjert for miljøet at ho er nominert til Frivillighetsprisen. Framtida. Haugtrø. Beate. 26 November 2018. 25 April 2021. Norwegian. 25 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210125015218/https://framtida.no/2018/11/26/penelope-lea-14-er-sa-engasjert-for-miljoet-at-ho-er-nominert-til-frivillighetsprisen. live.
  3. Web site: Penelope Lea donerer prispengar til klimasøksmål. Framtida. Kjøllesdal. Bente. Ingvild Eide Leirfall. 30 August 2019. 26 April 2021. Norwegian. 28 October 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201028171147/https://framtida.no/2019/08/30/penelope-lea-donerer-prispengar-til-klimasoksmal. live.
  4. Web site: Har du hørt om Penelope Lea?. NRK. Ragnhild Moen Holø. Hans Andreas Solbakken. 10 May 2019. 26 April 2021.
  5. Web site: David Beckham and Millie Bobby Brown headline UN summit to demand rights for every child. UNICEF. 19 November 2019. 25 April 2021. 8 March 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210308191431/https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/david-beckham-and-millie-bobby-brown-headline-un-summit-demand-rights-every-child. live.
  6. Web site: Climate change: COP25 recognises that children are leading climate change activism. BBC. 10 December 2019. 25 April 2021. 3 August 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200803165824/https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/50714878. live.
  7. Web site: Klimaaktivist Penelope Lea (15) er ny UNICEF-ambassadør. Framtida. Ingvild Eide Leirfall. 30 September 2019. 26 April 2021. Norwegian. 12 August 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200812001842/https://framtida.no/2019/09/29/klimaaktivist-penelope-lea-15-er-ny-unicef-ambassador. live.
  8. Web site: Harvey . Fiona . Fiona Harvey . 9 December 2019 . COP25 climate summit: put children at heart of tackling crisis, says UN . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210104170958/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/09/cop25-climate-summit-put-children-at-heart-of-tackling-crisis-says-un . 4 January 2021 . 26 April 2021 . The Guardian.
  9. Web site: Unicef Norway appoints teenage climate activist as ambassador. The Local. 2 October 2019. 26 April 2021. 4 October 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191004024845/https://www.thelocal.no/20191002/unicef-norway-appoints-teenage-climate-activist-as-ambassador. live.
  10. Web site: COP 25: Young climate activists call for urgent action on the climate crisis at UNICEF-OHCHR event. UNICEF. 6 December 2019. 25 April 2021. 17 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210117165101/https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/cop-25-young-climate-activists-call-urgent-action-climate-crisis-unicef-ohchr-event. live.

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