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That is what a brave and powerful 15-year-old said to the assembled world leaders, other dignitaries and ngos at the cop 24 climate conference in poland. greta is a young woman from speeden who has decided to make it her lifes mission to save the world from climate change. listen to her speak truth to power as she looks to the future. >> the year 2078 i will celebrate my 75th birthday. if i have children, maybe they will spend that day with me. maybe they will ask me about you. maybe they will a...

Something aint right. >> reporter: her mother went on to tell local news that she has cried so much, her tear ducts are dry. and sarahs local community in the twin cities has also been tragically heartbroken over this. she was an aspiring young musician, her friends called her thu thumper because she was so good on the drums. sarahs brother died of suicide just three years ago, and that in-spished the young woman to study psychology at erasmus where unfortunately she lost her life. >> thank you ...

Agreement reached three years ago. the two week talks were supposed to end on friday, but disputes remain on how to execute a plan to limit global warming. nick paton walsh has more on this from poland. >> reporter: on paper it was supposed to really have concluded by now, but we are into extra time here really of cop-24, vital talks to establish the technical framework, technical terms of how countries that have agreed in paris in 2015 to radically reduce their green house gas transmissions, ho...

Walks of life and different professional and social backgrounds. and really at the moment it is a revolt, it is an anger that comes from very, very deep and a needs to get it off ones chest moment and hopefully for everyone in france it will draw it a cloa -- hopefully it will to a close soon. there is the cop 24 taking place in poland and we all know that the transition to cleaner air has to be just for everyone and i think that that is perhaps key in this protest. >> lets take a look live here...

Climate accord promised and almost three years later those at the cop 24 climate change conference are still raising red flags about climate change. our nick payton walsh has this look for you. >> reporter: december 2015, the paris climate agreement gave those sounding alarm bells about the future a renewed hope for the planet. nearly 200 countries pledging to do their part to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels, with hopes of capping that number at 1....

So we went down totally out of control. and of course, we crashed into barbara bush, who broke her leg after that. so thats why he sent me this picture. so we had a really great time up there at camp david. and like i said, it was a great learning experience, hanging out around him. he was kind of like a mentor. and kind of like a father figure at the same time. >> thats wonderful. you saw a side of him that a lot of people didnt see. that athletic side. you said earlier this week that you love ...

He negotiated with the u.n., with the fcc in 1992 that happened. so since then, cop-21, cop-22, cop-23, cop-24, and they have been able to accomplish really great things to make people make a commitment to reducing the greenhouse gases all over the world, and hes also one that inspired me when i was governor of california. i was very adamant and very strong with trying to make a commitment reducing our greenhouse gases by 25% by the year 2020 in california. it all came from him. people dont know...