Hyd boy, youngest at COP27, says 'go local' to help farmers

Hyderabad boy, AnkithRao was the youngest participant from India at COP27. Speaking to Donita Jose, on the occasion of Children’s Day, after his return from the international summit, the 16-year-old says how it was an experience of a lifetime. Apart from speaking about sustainable agriculture at the conference, he also learnt about the devastating impacts of present-day resource intensive agricultural practices and how extreme climatic events are shaping lives of women, children and under privileged...

- Donita Jose

At a time when food insecurity and climate change is looming over us, it was important for us youth to be present at COP27 this year to put forward the cause of sustainable agriculture. It was for this very reason that my team and I, who are part of Decarbonise, a Centre for Global Education initiative, were at the summit to submit the Global Child Climate Manifesto.