Licypriya Kangujam started raising her voice against Climate change and disaster risk reduction when she was just 7 years old.

Ridhima Pandey was among a group of 16 children petitioners, including Greta Thunberg, who had gone to protest against the lack of action taken by governments across the world in order to challenge climate crisis.

“I hope that Greta’s message is a wake-up call to world leaders everywhere that the time for inaction is over. It is because of Greta, and young activists everywhere that I am optimistic about what the future holds. It was an honor to spend time with Greta. She and I have made a commitment to support one another, in hopes of securing a brighter future for our planet.”

“What we need is for lawmakers and people in power to start listening to the current, best possible science,” wrote Thunberg on declining the award.

Severn Suzuki’s strong words would cause her to be remembered as the “girl who silenced the world for five minutes.”

She, along with the other child petitioners alleges that Member States’ failure to tackle the climate crisis constitutes a violation of child rights. It was filed through the third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Thunberg is scheduled to testify on Wednesday morning at a joint hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, Energy and the Environment and the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis.

In perhaps what is the most searing indictment of us adults, the kids are taking us on. And in the best way possible. Where we, the generations preceding them, have blustered through our lives on this planet without really bothering about it, and the damage we are wrecking upon it, our kids are hell bent […]

You know these are desperate times when a 16-year-old gets trolled for taking a stand against environmental degradation. Never has the anti-conservation lobby been on back foot like it is today. But to target a teenager for voicing what she believes is right, tells us how defensiveness can often be characterised by aggression. The anti-conservation […]

Greta Thunberg is a Swedish climate activist who started a school strike for the climate outside the Swedish Parliament in August 2018. The school strike has since spread all over the world and now involves over 100,000 school children. The movement is called “Fridays For Future.” The 16-year-old has been nominated for Nobel Peace Prize […]