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Adriana Calderón Hernandéz (born 7 January 2003) is a youth climate activist and organizer from Mexico. She currently advocates for climate justice with Fridays For Future, Fridays For Future MAPA (Most Affected People and Areas) and Fridays For Future in Mexico (Viernes Por El Futuro Mexico). She is one of the co-signers of UNICEF´s Children's climate risk index report, part of the delegation of Fridays For Future MAPA that attended COP26, and one of the activists targeting the British multinational bank Standard Chartered and the Mexican state-owned petroleum company Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX).

Early life
Adriana was born in 2003 in Morelos, Mexico. A country where there are many climate problems such as water scarcity, floods and hurricanes that hit every summer. Mexico is one of the most affected countries and with less money and experience to withstand these impacts. At the same time, it is one of the least initiative for climate action. Adriana refers to one of her first experiences with the climate crisis:"My house was flooded when I was little: I remember my mother taking the water out of the house when she was pregnant with my sister."As a teenager, she began to notice how the floods came more frequently. But she didn’t get involved until she learned of the assassination of Samir Flores, a prominent an indigenous land rights activist and journalist who was shot in his home. This directed her towards the campaign for the Escazú Agreement. She has also talked about her first experience with eco-anxiety, she didn't know what it was, she just cried: "It's the overwhelming feeling that so many things are happening in the world, affecting so many people, and they don't have the ability to do anything to stop the effects of climate change."

Fridays For Future
Adriana began collaborating with Fridays For Future in organizing mobilizations such as Earth Day and the Global Climate Strike. In addition, she participated in the Mexican campaign Pemex does not love you so that the government stops subsidizing petroleum company PEMEX. The covid-19 pandemic allowed her to connect better within Fridays For Future, since until then it was a very eurocentric movement. She participated in the creation of MAPA, managing to create a great network with other young people from Bangladesh, Thailand and the Philippines who all ended up fighting for the same cause.

She was also involved in creating the ‘digital strike’ and the hashtag and poster march against Standard Chartered Bank, which served to strengthen social media with more content through hashtags such as #UprootTheSystem."We are striking against Standard Chartered Bank, which is one of the main climate killers in the world, it is one of the main investors in coal and oil mines in Africa, the Philippines and Latin America."

Adriana has used the spaces of Fridays For Future to denounce that the climate crisis is a consequence of the colonial patterns that oppress people from the global South, especially from Mexico:"Colonialist extractivism affects Mexico a lot, Coca-Cola and Bonafont run out of water and Canadian mining companies steal land from communities (…) the fight we are giving at the COP is not going to be for our future, but for the people who today suffer the consequences of these socio-environmental injustices."On August 19, 2021, she published an article in the The New York Times titled This Is the World Being Left to Us by Adults alongside Greta Thunberg from Sweden, Farzana Faruk Jhumu from Bangladesh, and Eric Njuguna from Kenya."The world’s climate scientists have made it clear that the time is now — we must act urgently to avoid the worst possible consequences. The world’s young people stand with the scientists and will continue to sound the alarm. We are in a crisis of crises. A pollution crisis. A climate crisis. A children’s rights crisis. We will not allow the world to look away."

Published works

 * Thunberg, Greta; Calderón, Adriana; Faruk, Farzana; Njuguna, Eric (2021). "Opinion | This Is the World Being Left to Us by Adults". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
 * Thunberg, Greta; Calderón, Adriana; Faruk, Farzana; Njuguna, Eric (2021). Foreword of "The Climate Crisis Is a Child Rights Crisis: Introducing the Children's Climate Risk Index." UNICEF. ISBN: 978-92-806-5276-5.