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COP25: Support business efforts to tackle climate change, urges Guterres
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 12 (ANI): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday urged business communities and civil society leaders to press governments into articulating policies that support private-sector efforts to address climate change.
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Brazilian President calls Greta Thunberg a 'brat'
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Brasilia [Brazil], Dec 11 (ANI): Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has called Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg a "pirralha," -- a derogatory Portuguese word meaning brat -- after the latter denounced the killing of indigenous Brazilian people in the Amazon.
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Greta Thunberg, 16, named Time's Person of the Year
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Dec 11 (ANI): Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg was named Time Magazine's person of the year 2019 on Wednesday, becoming the youngest person ever to be the recipient of the title.
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8-year-old Licypriya Kangujam urges PM to implement climate change laws
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 8 (ANI): An 8-year-old Licypriya Kangujam from Manipur has called upon Prime Minister Narendra Modi to implement climate change laws in the country and pass them in the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament.
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Dutee Chand named in TIME 100 Next list
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Nov 13 (ANI): TIME magazine has named Indian athlete Dutee Chand to its first-ever TIME 100 Next, a new expansion of the TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
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Greta Thunberg to cross Atlantic by catamaran to attend COP25 in Madrid
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], Nov 13 (Sputnik/ANI): Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg on Wednesday said she would travel across the Atlantic Ocean by catamaran to attend the UN Climate Change Conference (COP25), which will open on December 2 in Madrid.
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Greta Thunberg goes cycling with Arnold Schwarzenegger
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Nov 6 (ANI): Climate change activist Greta Thunberg who shook the entire nation with her speech at UN Climate Action Summit in New York, went cycling with actor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Leonardo DiCaprio hails Greta Thunberg, calls her 'leader of our time'
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Nov 3 (ANI): Actor Leonardo Di Caprio praised teen climate activist Greta Thunberg after the two met in California this week.
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Effect of climate change on cricket a major concern, says Ian Chappell
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
London [UK], Sept 30 (ANI): Former Australia cricketer Ian Chappell believes that the effects of climate change on the game of cricket is a major concern and said that measures need to be taken fast by the administrators who govern the sport.
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Nepal: Students and activists take to streets join Global Climate Strike
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Lalitpur [Nepal], Sept 28 (ANI): On the last day of Climate Strike Week or the "Strike Friday" hundreds of Nepali students and activists took to the streets of Lalitpur as part of the Global Climate Strike that called for action to combat climate change and minimise its adverse impacts.
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There's no Earth B: Children skip school to walk the talk on climate chang
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Sept 27 (ANI): "We have to raise our thoughts, not the sea levels," was the hard-hitting message echoing the parliament street adjoining Jantar Mantar here on Friday when dozens of children skipped school to draw everyone's attention to today's urgency - climate change!
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Group of 16 young climate activists including India's Ridhima Pandey file
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], Sept 24 (ANI): Sixteen youth activists including India's Ridhima Pandey and Swedish Greta Thunberg on Monday filed an "official complaint" before the United Nations Committee demanding the organisation to order member states to take actions for protecting children from the "de
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