17-year-old from Surat appointed as Regional Ambassador for UN Environment Programme

Surat, September 24: With an aim to conserve the environment and determined to spread awareness about safeguarding it, a 17-year-old girl, Khushi Chindaliya, from Surat has been appointed as Regional Ambassador for India by the United Nations Environment Programme - Tunza Eco-Generation. She will work with the TEG on various environmental awareness programmes till February 2021.

 

 

 

 

Khushi Chindaliya revealed her turning point to safeguard the environment. She had looked for ways to conserve nature after she saw the greenery around her hometown turn into a concrete jungle. But when she grew older, the greenery turned into concrete jungles and she realised that her younger sister would not be able to enjoy the beauty of nature. This became the turning point when she became more aware of nature and looked for ways to protect the environment.

 

Now, this idea about conserving the environment has turned the 17-year-old’s interest in nature and conservation of the environment into the Regional Ambassador of the United Nations Environment Programme - Tunza Eco-Generation.

 

The honourable appointment will give Khushi a platform to spread awareness about the safeguard of environmental treasures and discuss India’s contribution to environmental conservation. She will also have the opportunity to discuss the subject with other ambassadors around the world.

 

Given the coronavirus restrictions, she will conduct her awareness sessions online and share reports and speaking on what the Indian government is doing for the environment. Furthermore, she will also get a chance to understand the global environmental situation through interactions with other Regional Ambassadors.

 

This is not the first that a young girl has been on the UN platform. In 2019, Ridhima Pandey, a 12-year-old girl from Uttrakhand, attended the United Nations Climate Action Summit, an annual conference organised under the aegis of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).