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Teenagers are changing the world in many widely different fields, from social and political leadership to new technologies that battle the effects of climate change. Many of them did so in the difficult year of 2020 even while facing great personal challenges. All the exceptional teenagers profiled here also appear in Encyclopaedia Britannica’s new Shapers of the Future series, highlighting 200 brilliant, already highly accomplished women and men under age 40 in all fields of endeavor.
Coming from every corner of the world, these young people serve as inspirations for the rest of us, young and old, to do better and try harder. This is especially true of 12 such people who were teenagers in 2020: they have located problems and delivered solutions, continuing to fight the good fight against the social and environmental woes that beset us everywhere.