The Rio Environmental Summit: One Teen Activist’s View

The World

There might be sand in the gears at the official meetings at the UN sustainable development summit in Rio de Janeiro, but there is plenty of action among activists and others outside the building.

Anchor Marco Werman talks 18-year-old activist Alysha Huggins, one of the thousands of young activists pressing for a new greener approach to human development.

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