advertisement
Video Editor: Vishal Kumar
A young climate activist from India, Vishnu PR, is among 100 outstanding climate champions from around the world who will travel to the UN headquarters to participate in the first-ever Youth Climate Summit on 21 September.
He has been selected for a special ‘Green Ticket’ which will help him to participate in the summit, which is a platform for young climate leaders to showcase their solutions for climate change on a global stage.
Hailing from Thiruvananthapuram, Vishnu is the CEO of ‘Change Can Change Climate Change (C5) Foundation’, an organisation focused on climate change mitigation and adaptation projects.
Speaking to The Quint, Vishnu said that the common men and women who fight climate change in their everyday lives are the real heroes.
Young students across the world have been taking to the streets in large numbers as part of a coordinated global strike – #FridaysForFuture – to protest government and corporate inaction on climate change. While these protests have been held in India regularly, they have not yet gained momentum and see scant participation.
C5 is a youth-led initiative which was originally designed as a sustainable volunteer development platform to serve as a model for the whole nation, starting from Thiruvananthapuram. It has expanded into a platform with more than 10,000 registered youngsters in the district, the UN said.
These projects are operated by creating financially sustainable eco-friendly business models which are seed funded by CSR initiatives and every component operates as sustainable business units which will become self-sustainable in the future, thereby creating a social entrepreneurship incubation platform for young entrepreneurs who are working in the sectors of climate change.
(At The Quint, we question everything. Play an active role in shaping our journalism by becoming a member today.)