The United Nations Organization [UN] is working on a general observation on the rights of children and the environment, with special attention to climate change and how it is harming the situation of children around the world.To do this, it has formed a team of 12 activists and defenders of the environment and children's rights to advise on this document, which will also be a guide on what governments should do to defend these rights.Among the young advisers, the 12-year-old Colombian activist Francisco Vera Manzanares, winner of the Arona SOS Atlántico award and international ambassador of this festival, which promotes the protection of the oceans and cetaceans, in particular, and of Nature, has been chosen. general.After learning of the appointment, the mayor of Arona, José Julián Mena, made public his congratulations to Francisco Vera, underlining the importance “and the wisdom that a festival that has its heart in the municipality has awarded it and chosen its ambassador.The election of him as a member of the committee does nothing but promote the international projection of the message that Arona transmits of respect for the environment and, very especially, for the richness of our seas.Today is a day of congratulations for all the aroneros”, he remarked.The children and young people of the world who will guide the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to create children's environmental rights, together with Francisco Vera Manzanares, are the activists for the rights of children, Angella Fostino, George Kande and Olt Kastrati;climate activists Aniva Clarke and Tânia dos Santos Maia;the defender of children's rights, Bach Lam;climate advocate Sagarika Sriram;climate influencer Elizabeth N.;climate and children's rights activist Kartik Verma;Madhvi Chittoor, activist for zero waste, ecoethics and climate justice and Maya-Natuk Rohmann Fleischer, activist for children's rights and against climate change.Founder of the Guardians for Life movement, made up of children from around the world who defend the environment, the Colombian activist Francisco Vera Manzanares participated, in Tenerife, La Gomera and Lanzarote, in the program of the eighth edition of the Arona SOS Atlántico Festival, which took place in Madrid and the Canary Islands, in 2021, the year in which he also traveled to the Summit against Climate Change in Glasgow (COP26), an English city in which he coincided with Greta Thunberg.Vera Manzanares and Juan Alejandro Gaviria started the Guardians for Life movement, with a first action to plant trees in La Molienda Park, in their native Colombia, along with five other boys and girls, with which they asked their municipal government to implement Climate Action Now.Little by little, their actions were extended, until they reached the Congress of the Republic of Colombia itself, in 2019, where Francisco Vera Manzanares called for "legislation for life", in a historic intervention that caught the country's attention.In addition to continuing to request the declaration of a climate emergency or the prohibition of testing in Colombia or the use of single-use plastics and promoting environmental pedagogy, this movement has already planted some 300 trees in the Latin American country.In addition, Vera Manzanares was recognized by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, for his contribution to building a better society and was appointed Goodwill Ambassador of the European Union Delegation in Colombia.Copyright © 2022, Canary Notices, SA