Inspired by Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, a group of young activists from several Latin
American countries have converged in Chile to exchange ideas on how to battle climate change.
In a mountainous area on the outskirts of Santiago, representatives of
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador,
Mexico, Peru, Paraguay and Uruguay exchanged ideas for actions to pressure changes in their countries' policies.
"Our goal here is to enable them so that they have more tools, more possibility of making a stronger movement, a movement with more impact to contain the climate crisis," Ilan Zugman of the 350.org organization told Reuters.