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Lucknow:
Thirteen-year-old Yugratna Srivastava from here will address the UN
conference on climate change on Tuesday in New York, bringing
laurels to the country, specially the City of Nawabs.
The only child of A K Srivastava and Roshani, Yugratna will be the
first girl from India, and second in the world after Severine Suzuki
in 1992, to address the august gathering of over 100 world leaders,
including US President Barack Obama and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon,
on behalf of nearly three billion population comprising children and
youth. She will speak minutes after Nobel Laureate Wagaari Mathai’s
speech.
The conference is part of the UN campaign to bring about a fair and
ratifiable green house gas reduction agreement at this year’s
Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
While Roshani has accompanied Yugratna to New York, Srivastava has
no other thought than the journey his daughter has made so far. But
call it modesty, he is not willing to even take half the credit for
his daughter’s extraordinary achievement. He is a Reader in Botany
in the Govt PG College here but he would rather give all the credit
to Yugratna’s mother _ a housewife and PhD in Zoology.
“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.
Yugratna is a member of Tarumitra (Friends of Trees), an NGO devoted
to stopping felling of trees and forests, among other activities.
Yugratna, a Class X student, represented Tarumitra in the Tunza
youth conference in Norway organised by the United Nations
Environment Prog r a m m e (UNEP) in 2008 and became a member of the
Junior Board.
Tunza is the UNEP magazine for youth.
“For my generation in India, climate change means global warming,
scarcity of food and drinking water and an outbreak of dreadful
epidemics,” she was quoted as saying.
“I’m going to tell him (Obama) that the policies that they make
today are going to affect us and only if they act proper now then
they have secured the future for us.”
“Please listen to the voices of the youth and children, and please
try your best to solve all the environmental crises that are
occurring in our community,” is her message to Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh.
India will be represented by Foreign Minister S M Krishna and Ramesh.
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