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Licypriya Kangujam (Meitei pronunciation: [lisipɾija kaŋŋud͡ʒɐm]; born 2 October 2011) is a child environmental activist from India. [2] One of the youngest climate activists globally, she addressed world leaders at the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid, Spain, asking them to take immediate climate action.
The Ganga Action Plan or GAP was a program launched by Rajiv Gandhi in April 1986 to reduce the pollution load on the river. But the efforts to decrease the pollution level in the river became abortive even after spending ₹ 9017.1 million (~190 million USD adjusting to inflation). [13] Therefore, this plan was withdrawn on 31 March 2000.
Jhola Aandolan a mass movement is conducting as fighting against polyethylene carry bags uses and promoting cloth/jute/paper carry bags to protect the environment and nature. Activists in the Indian environmental movement consider global warming, sea levels rising, and glaciers retreating decreasing the amount of water flowing into streams to ...
The Right Livelihood Award — known as the “Alternative Nobel” — was awarded Thursday to environment activists from Kenya and Cambodia, a human right defender from Ghana and a humanitarian ...
Early on, he fought against untouchability and later started organising hill women in his anti-liquor drive from 1965 to 1970. [8] He started social activities at the age of 13, under the guidance of Shri Dev Suman , who was a nationalist spreading a message of non-violence, [ 9 ] and he was with the Congress Party of Uttar Pradesh at the time ...
Young environmental activists scored what experts described as a ground-breaking legal victory Monday when a Montana judge said state agencies were violating their constitutional right to a clean ...
Diane Wilson (born October 17, 1948) [1] is an American environmental activist, an anti-war activist, and an author.In 1989, she was a shrimp boat captain in Calhoun County, Texas, and she saw an Associated Press article saying that the county had the most toxic waste disposal of all counties in America. [2]
Activists link this to alleged environmental violations at the disposal facility but officials have denied this. "Water filters in our homes don't last two months. Skin diseases and kidney stones ...