The millennials must keep up the pressure following the Paris climate deal | Finn Harries

My generation has a responsibility to find practical solutions to the environmental problems we have inherited and ensure politicians honour their promises

I was 15, sitting on a London tube headed for the Houses of Parliament with my mum, when she leant forward and warned me that she might be about to get arrested. It was 2009 and we were on our way to a climate change protest she had helped to organise.

Together with a group of friends - all women - she had co-founded an environmental lobbying group to demand that the government take urgent action on climate change in the run-up the Copenhagen UN climate talks.