13 year old Indian girl addresses UN summit

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New York: Yugratna Srivastav, a 13-year-old girl from Lucknow has addressed the United Nations Climate Change Summit in New York. Yugratna's speech was cheered on by world leaders including UN General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon. "It was a very great experience for me because now actually I feel I'm one in a million who gets an opportunity to speak. I also met several heads of state and I was sitting next to Al Gore," said Yugratna to CNN-IBN.

"World leaders must recognise the energy and potential which lies in children and youth. This age group is just like flowing rivers and they make their own way in the direction in which they march," said Yugratna, a lively, committed and very passionate teenager.

Yugratna became sensitised to environmental protection in Grade 6 in St. Francis School in Shamli, India. It was there that she joined "Tarumitra" (Friends of Trees).

The non-governmental organization works hard to stop the felling of trees and forests, builds roadside gardens and cleans up garbage dumps, among other activities.

In 2008 Yugratna participated in the Tunza youth conference in Norway organised by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and became a member of the Junior Board. Tunza is the UNEP magazine for youth.

She is the first Indian child to ever get elected to the Junior Board and was invited again to participate in this year's Tunza conference in Seoul.

When she is not in school, she is talking about climate change and environmental protection around India and abroad.

"For my generation in India, climate change means global warming, scarcity of food and drinking water and an outbreak of accentuated epidemics," she added.

Her increasing environmental activism has brought her to the attention of UNEP and now to the world leading to her addressing the UN Summit in New York.

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Yugratna Srivastav has indeed made us proud... A 13-year-old Indian girl, speaking on behalf of the world's three billion children, asked world leaders there, including the Presidents of United States and China, for urgent action on climate change.
 
scarcity of food in India can be addressed if the govt stops export of essential commodities. first make the country self sufficient then export the extra stuff.

also what about the hundreds of tonnes of rotting food grains horded by the FCI in its godowns waiting for some calamity to come? the govt was made by short sighted people. its time this got changed.
 
vikram.krishan said:
Must say Yugratna Srivastav has done great guns Representing India.
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Are you sure about this ?

Until i see the content of what she has said, its not possible to reach this conclusion.

Suffice to say that we along with China have NOT agreed to an emmisions cut for some time now as it would affect our economies. Heh, this is one area where we both see eye to eye :)

The argument is why should we cut down emissions when the west built up its prosperity without any restrictions ?

So for us to agree with an emmisions cut is like imposing a tax on ourselves whilst we develop our economies.

The reasons why Ban KI moon is happy, is that someone (could have been either from China or here) is actually making the west's point for them ;)

So question is....are you willing to take a hit in our economy for the sake of the environment ?

I'm not advocating we continue like this forever, but that we don't start shooting ourselves in the foot until we reach 'developed' status.
 
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