On 14th November 2019, 12-year-old climate change activist, Riddhima Pandey was scheduled to speak at Shiv Nadar School in Faridabad, on the occasion of Children’s Day. It was quite the irony that her address was cancelled owing to all schools in Haryana being shut due to the state of hazardous air quality. Four days later, while Delhi’s air quality measure may have moved up a few notches to ‘Very Unhealthy,’ Riddhima’s message remains unchanged: We need climate action, now. Speaking at the school four days later, Riddhima highlighted how children her age may be the ones who can bring about change – forcing people at positions of legislative power to actually take action. Labelled ‘India’s Greta Thunberg’ by media, Riddhima was part of the panel of children who signed a petition to the UN convention demanding immediate action to counter climate change. On the ‘Greta’ nickname, soft-spoken Riddhima says that while she would like to be known by her own individual name, but is glad her work is compared to Greta’s and “by whichever name I can make people more aware, I would do that,” she responds. The legal petition, however, isn’t something new to Riddhima. At just the age of… Read full this story
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