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A 15-year-old has filed a lawsuit against President Barack Obama, who is currently at the U.N. COP21 climate change summit in Paris.

The teenage environmentalist, Xiuhtezcatl Tonatiuh, is furious with the President for his failure to fight effectively against climate change. She is among the 21 palintiffs who have tried to stop the United States from using fossil fuels.

The teenager from Colorado is upfront about her message. "It's basically a bunch of kids saying you're not doing your job," said Tonatiuh, according to CNN. "You're failing, you know. F-minus. We're holding you accountable for your lack of action."

It is interesting that the lawsuit from the small girl has got the giant oil companies worried about their business, as they are attacking and trying to get the lawsuit dismissed.

"Seeing giant fossil fuel corporations inject themselves into this case, which is about our future, really demonstrates the problem we are trying to fix," Tonatiuh said, according to the environmental group Our Children's Trust. "The Federal government has been making decisions in the best interest of multinational corporations and their profits, but not in the best interest of my generation and those to come."

Meanwhile, the President in Paris admitted that the U.S. should speed up action on climate change and drag down carbon emissions.

"I've come here personally, as the leader of the world's largest economy and the second-largest emitter, to say that the United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it," said Obama, according to the New York Times.

Tonatiuh, though, who is part of the Paris meet, was vocal in her dismissal of his words. "We've all seen that speech. Talk is cheap. I wanna see concrete action and concrete promises from our country - and commitments for action on climate change," she said.