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Ridhima Pandey - 11 year old who filed a petition against government.Find out how India is fighting climate change.



In the past 50yrs 1/3 of wildland has been lost and almost half of the world land animals have vanished. By 2030 half of ocean life will be gone. With this climate change and rising global temperature world will witness the end of the ice age.


An 11-year old girl from Uttarakhand, Riddhima Pandey, is one of the 16 petitioners against government inaction to prevent the climate crisis. In 2017 she filed a complaint against the Indian government to protest the inaction for climate change.

Her demands to court

• Audit industrial projects for climate-related issues
• Plan a “carbon budget” to limit carbon dioxide emissions
• Establish a national climate recovery plan



Current Scenario

• Sea level rises have submerged several low-lying islands in the Sundarbans, evacuating thousands of people.
• Bangladesh to be the first country to get hit by climate change. Increasing sea level and temperature are major reasons.
• Record break temperature in 2019 reached 50.6°C, killing 26 people and 15 monkeys died of heatstroke
• Climate change will show a decline of 9% in Indias GDP in the coming years. As India is a major contributor to agriculture in the world, it will show a fall of 40%.
• By 2020, Mumbai and Chennai will witness a few of its parts submerged in water due to a rise in sea level.
·  56% of India's population work in agriculture this sector will witness undefinable damage in the coming years.

The Indian government has started to act to climate change

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit at UN headquarters in New York City

Among various climate change action plan, few consist of 
1.     Increasing the share of green fuel and by 2022.
2.     Plan to increase renewable energy capacity too much beyond 175 GW, and next till 450 GW.
3.     Plans to make the transport sector green through e-mobility.
4.     Increasing the proportion of biofuel blend in petrol and diesel.
5.  Jal Jeevan mission for water conservation, rainwater harvesting and the development of water resources.
6.     Almost $50 billion will be spent on these plans in the coming years.

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