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Vic Barrett - what FakeNewsCNN omitted:

SustainUs: Vic Barrett, COP24 delegate
Vic Barrett is a 19 year old, first generation Honduran-American, from New York. Vic has been learning about and fighting against the ways environmental racism and global climate justice manifest for 5 years now.
Vic is currently attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she is pursuing Political Science and Environmental Studies Degrees...
She has been exploring these concepts since her freshman year of high school where she worked to get climate education mandated in New York City Public Schools K-12 and also worked to get offshore wind initiatives in New York City...

Since then Vic has joined a lawsuit with 20 other young people suing the U.S. Federal Government for violating young people’s constitutional rights by developing and encouraging fossil fuel infrastructure and use, therefore contributing to the global climate crisis. Vic traveled to COP 21 in Paris, France where she learned about the broader implications of of the United States actions on climate change and fossil fuel extraction. Following this experience she was lucky enough to visit many countries internationally speaking on youth engagement on climate change and its necessity. Vic also addressed the United Nations General Assembly to speak on youth involvement with the Sustainable Development Goals and in conjunction with the signing of the Paris Agreement. Vic hopes to use the platforms she’s been lucky enough to access in order to spread a message of youth empowerment and intersectionality.
https://sustainus.org/people/vic-barrett/

Wisconsin Public Radio: Vic Barrett, Environmental Activist, Student
Vic Barrett is one of the 21 plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States. She’s addressed the UN on climate change, and is currently a student UW-Madison studying political science.
Biographical information last updated on October 25, 2018.
https://www.wpr.org/people/vic-barrett

Wikipedia: Juliana, et al. v. United States of America, et al. is a lawsuit filed in 2015 that is being brought by 21 youth plaintiffs against the United States and several of its executive branch positions and officers, also formerly including President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama. The plaintiffs, represented by the non-profit organization Our Children’s Trust, include Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, the members of Martinez’s organization Earth Guardians, and on behalf of future generations represented by climatologist James Hansen...
The Oregon non-profit organization, Our Children’s Trust, was created by attorney Julia Olson...

The 21 youths, ranging from 8 to 19 at the time of filing, received pro bono representation from Our Children’s Trust, and had support of climatologist James Hansen, acting as a “guardian for future generations” in the case filings. (Hansen’s granddaughter Sophie Kievehan was one of the named plaintiffs.)...

On November 21, Judge Aiken reversed her position based on the comments from higher courts and granted the government’s request for an interlocutory appeal, putting the entire case on hold until the higher courts have ruled.
Some experts, such as the director of Columbia University’s climate change center, expect that any decision in favor of the plaintiffs would be reversed by the Supreme Court, which is reluctant to declare new rights and unanimously held in American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut that it was not for the courts to decide appropriate levels of pollution.
Plaintiffs:
includes Victoria Barrett...
Future generations, represented by James Hansen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliana_v._United_States