They want everyone, including older generations and policymakers, to do more to address climate change together, as President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and world leaders gather in Glasgow, Scotland for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) to find ways to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Aulia Salsabella Suwarno, a 22-year-old member of Generation Z and recent graduate of Bandung Technological University in oceanography, who now works as a contract employee at the Maritime and Fisheries Ministry in Jakarta, is a prime example.

Aulia’s first encounter with environment and climate change issues was during her college years where she went to Pagerungan Kecil Island in Sumenep, East Java, for voluntary work in exchange for credit hours.

There, she discovered that the locals had experienced hotter weather than in the previous years, and that parts of the island’s coast was lost to erosion. She found some coral reefs were beginning to show signs of bleaching from the hot weather, driving away the fish the locals depended on for sustenance.

“I learned that the most severe impacts of climate change were not felt in big cities, but on small islands and coastal regions,” Aulia told The Jakarta Post on Saturday.

For her part in climate action, Aulia and some of her friends run an Instagram account @pratisarabumi to educate people on environment and climate issues.