US teen takes green leap to China

SHANGHAI: At 16, Taylor Francis is the youngest ambassador of The Climate Project, a US-based non-profit program that promotes awareness of global warming.

He was selected and trained on environmental issues two years ago by former US vice-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore, who also inspired and acted in the Academy Award-winning movie An Inconvenient Truth.

The teen has spoken to more than 10,000 people, mostly high school students, in the US in his green crusade. He talked about how each one of them can make a difference to stop climate change.