Youth Climate Change Summit held in Jersey

Climate change engagement manager Jane Burns said despite Jersey's size it had a global impact

A Youth Climate Change Summit, which involved more than 100 schoolchildren, has been held in Jersey.

The event took place on Thursday and was led by the Government of Jersey.

Jane Burns, climate change engagement manager, said the island provided "a lot of carbon literacy training" but wanted to do "something different".

"We thought we would do a youth summit and bring together lots of young people from different secondary schools to teach them about climate change," she said.

'Global impact'

Ms Burns added: "The Carbon Literacy Project is a global movement and they really help people understand climate change.

"So it goes through the basics of what climate change is, how we know it is happening, but what we like about it is there is a degree of positivity so it empowers people so they can realise the differences they can make in their own lives."

Ms Burns said the summit directly fed into the island's carbon literacy strategy.

She said: "It's really important to us that islanders understand why it's so important that we are tackling climate change.

"Jersey is a tiny, tiny community but this is about how we have a global impact."