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Lucknow girl to address world leaders on climate change
Betwa Sharma
New York, Sept 21 (PTI) A 13-year-old girl from Lucknow,
speaking on behalf of the world's three billion children, will
address over a 100 world leaders including US President Barack
Obama during a summit on the climate change here Tuesday.
"I'm going to tell him (Obama) that the policies that
they make Monday are going to affect us and if they act in
present then they have secured the future for us," Yugratna
Srivastava told PTI.
"We received a very nice planet from our ancestors. It
was green, now we have damaged it, polluted it, and we're
going to give a bad planet to our successors and this is not
right," Srivastava, who is also on the youth advisory board of
UNEP's youth organisation called 'Tunza'(to nurture), added.
"Please listen to the voices of youth and children, and
please try your best to solve all the environmental crises
that are occurring in our community," is her message to Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and Environment Minister Jairam
Ramesh.
The ninth class student of St. Fidelis College will be
addressing more than a 100 world leaders at the General
Assembly during the Climate Change Summit convened by the UN
Chief Ban Ki-moon. India will be represented by the Foreign
Minister S M Krishna and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh.
This summit is being held to mobilise political will
ahead of the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in
December, which is expected to yield a climate treaty to
succeed the Kyoto Protocol.
"They (the world leaders) have to take into account the
opinion of the three billion youths," Srivastava said.
"They can't exclude us so we are ready to help them and
provide full support to them to have a green planet."
Commenting on the divide between the developed and
developing world on the issue, Srivastava noted, "Each country
should do its best since environmental problems never
differentiate political or geographical boundaries."
"Whatever protocol they make, it should be an action
oriented one and they should enforce them," she added.
The UNEP was very impressed with Srivastava's performance
at a meeting in Daejeon, South Korea, which produced a youth
statement on climate change on the road to Copenhagen. She was
selected for Tunza after speaking at the high-level event
through a competitive process.
The young environmentalist said that she was proud to
represent India.
The conservationist recommends that everyone should save
water, conserve electricity and plant trees. "The world will
change only if each individual changes," she puts it simply.
On the web, Srivastava tweets urgent messages about
saving the planet. While she is anxious about her big speech,
the young leader is also glad to miss her exams in school.
"I'm pretty nervous but I'm also confident that I have
the voice of three billion of the population that will reach
them and they will have to act," she said. PTI BS
JVN
New York, Sept 21 (PTI) A 13-year-old girl from Lucknow,
speaking on behalf of the world's three billion children, will
address over a 100 world leaders including US President Barack
Obama during a summit on the climate change here Tuesday.
"I'm going to tell him (Obama) that the policies that
they make Monday are going to affect us and if they act in
present then they have secured the future for us," Yugratna
Srivastava told PTI.
"We received a very nice planet from our ancestors. It
was green, now we have damaged it, polluted it, and we're
going to give a bad planet to our successors and this is not
right," Srivastava, who is also on the youth advisory board of
UNEP's youth organisation called 'Tunza'(to nurture), added.
"Please listen to the voices of youth and children, and
please try your best to solve all the environmental crises
that are occurring in our community," is her message to Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and Environment Minister Jairam
Ramesh.
The ninth class student of St. Fidelis College will be
addressing more than a 100 world leaders at the General
Assembly during the Climate Change Summit convened by the UN
Chief Ban Ki-moon. India will be represented by the Foreign
Minister S M Krishna and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh.
This summit is being held to mobilise political will
ahead of the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in
December, which is expected to yield a climate treaty to
succeed the Kyoto Protocol.
"They (the world leaders) have to take into account the
opinion of the three billion youths," Srivastava said.
"They can't exclude us so we are ready to help them and
provide full support to them to have a green planet."
Commenting on the divide between the developed and
developing world on the issue, Srivastava noted, "Each country
should do its best since environmental problems never
differentiate political or geographical boundaries."
"Whatever protocol they make, it should be an action
oriented one and they should enforce them," she added.
The UNEP was very impressed with Srivastava's performance
at a meeting in Daejeon, South Korea, which produced a youth
statement on climate change on the road to Copenhagen. She was
selected for Tunza after speaking at the high-level event
through a competitive process.
The young environmentalist said that she was proud to
represent India.
The conservationist recommends that everyone should save
water, conserve electricity and plant trees. "The world will
change only if each individual changes," she puts it simply.
On the web, Srivastava tweets urgent messages about
saving the planet. While she is anxious about her big speech,
the young leader is also glad to miss her exams in school.
"I'm pretty nervous but I'm also confident that I have
the voice of three billion of the population that will reach
them and they will have to act," she said. PTI BS
JVN
