Student transforms her environmental passion into action

With a mushroom hairstyle and wearing round glasses and a sports shirt, Wu Guanzhuo looks like many of her fellow senior high school students in China who are studying as hard as they can to secure places at universities amid fierce competition.

However, Wu stands out. At the age of 16 she already has considerable experience of being involved in environmental and climate change issues.

Flying for a total of about 30 hours from her hometown of Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province, Northeast China, to the Polish city of Katowice for the UN Climate Change Conference, which ended at the weekend, is just the latest example of her environmental enthusiasm.