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| Yugratna's blog: My speech to Obama, UN |
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| It was really a great experience to attend the summit. Three billion of world's population was counting on me. It was not only me but it was United Nations Environment Programme which I was representing. Overall, it was a wonderful experience to speak in front of more than 100 world leaders. I was basically appealing to the world leaders to include the voices of children and youth in all their decisions before they finally act. I also asked them to agree on a more, fair, just and action-oriented post-Kyoto agreement adopted and implemented by all countries. They have to seal the deal in Copenhagen. I asked them two questions:
I owe my success to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for giving me such a wonderful opportunity. UNEP helped me a lot with my speech as well as provided a lot of support and encouragement too. I have been working as an active member of Tarumitra since 2006. Since then, I have been involved in promoting environmental awareness at grass root level as well as speaking at national and international conferences at the Global level. In the coming time, I will be interacting with youth and children all across the country to encourage them to come up with several ideas for environment conservation. As well I am going to start Plant-for-the-Planet to plant 1 million trees in India. |
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Thirteen-year-old Yugratna Srivastava from Lucknow became the first Indian teenager to address the United Nations General Assembly on global climate change. She was invited by the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, to address the UN summit on climate change.
