Prof Bronwyn Hayward (MNZM, FRSNZ) is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations and Director of Hei Puāwaitanga: The Sustainability, Citizenship and Civic Imagination Research group at the university of Canterbury. She was made a Member of the New Zealand order of Merit (MNZM) in 2021 for her contributions to sustainability, youth and climate change and was elected as a Fellow of the NZ Royal Society in 2022. Bronwyn is has served for the last 8 years as on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change or the IPCC as a core writing team author contributing the 1.5 degrees C special report, the 2022 Cities & Infrastructure chapter and 2023 Climate Science Synthesis report. She leads a study funded by the UK Economic and Social research Council with Surrey university and 5 other partner institutions following children growing up in seven cities around the world and coleads Mana Rangatahi a Deep South Science project supporting Maori and Pacific local youth leadership in a changing climate. She has been a trustee for the SPARK Foundation & Give A Little. She was a Kiwibank Local Hero in 2019, and “Supreme winner in 2021 of Westpac/Stuff media Woman of Influence & Environment awards. Her most recent books are Sea Change: Climate politics and New Zealand (2017 published by BWB Wellington) and Children, Citizenship and Environment #SchoolStrike Edition (published by Routledge, London, 2021).