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Youth show the mirror to major nations including India at UN climate summit

16 children, including India's Ridhima Pandey, said they would petition the UN against five big carbon polluters in the world

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United Nations Secretary General Guterres makes his closing statement at the end of the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit at U.N. headquarters in New York City. Photo: Reuters

Disha Shetty | IndiaSpend New York

At the United Nations (UN) emergency climate summit, 16 children, including India’s Ridhima Pandey, said they would petition the UN against five big carbon polluters in the world--Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany and Turkey--for violating their rights as children by failing to adequately reduce emissions.

Pandey, 11, is from Haridwar in Uttarakhand, and had, in 2017, filed a case against the Indian government at the National Green Tribunal for failing to take action against climate change.

As countries reiterated old promises to control climate change, the