Nico Roman Cordonier Gehring (14) is a scholar at Winchester College, UK. As a UN Child Ambassador for the SDGs, he is working to help protect nature and the rights of future generations globally. Nico is co-chair and a junior editor of the Global Youth Council on Science, Law & Sustainability’s online journal, and also an award-winning young author whose stories are published in Luna Spark anthologies (winning first place in the world one year!), and editor of Nico’s Natural World, a youth blog to raise awareness and education about sustainability. Nico and Wezi from Zambia, recently published a submission to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child General Comment 26.

Nico has also hosted online Eco-Seminar mini-series about the SDGs and lead climate-strikes in Cambridge UK, and co-led the Cambridge Schools Eco-Council, Nico’s team are national Rotary Young Environmentalist Award laureate for our local ‘Heron Project’ to protect the Cambridgeshire fenlands and fight climate change by reducing sources, restoring sinks, and mobilising their school and our society for SDG 13 Climate Action. Nico is also a recipient of the Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal and Ambassador’s Award from the Trust for Sustainable Living student debates in BC, Canada.

Nico enjoys drama and reading, painting models, swimming, canoeing and sailing, and exploring history, geography and science, and I play the clarinet, sax and piano. He especially loves nature – protecting endangered species like his two Hermann’s Tortoises and advancing the global Sustainable Development Goals for kids and for the future we want.