The UN advisory group includes Sophia Kianni, 18, an Iranian-American student at the University of Virginia who founded and directs Climate Cardinals, a youth association that translates documents in numerous languages to make climate information more accessible to non-English speakers. “There really is a discrepancy in the amount of information available,” she said, “which is a shame because the top 10 countries worst affected by climate change – none of them are majority English-speaking.”