Featured as TEN SURPRISING CLIMATE AND RENEWABLE ENERGY ACTIVISTSby Simran Vedvyas | 05-08-2017 18:05 |
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 We know that climate leaders can be anyone and come from any background, but not everyone does. As featured in the blog by Climate Reality by the environment legend Al Gore After having trained over 12,000 Climate Reality Leaders in the years since An Inconvenient Truth premiered, we know that great activists defy stereotypes of who does and doesn t care about the planet and can come from any background. SIMRAN VEDVYAS Simran Vedvyas of Dubai is best known as founder of SynergY, a company that enables and inspires young people in the United Arab Emirates UAE and India to take action to solve the climate crisis and create a cleaner future. For her work as an environmentalist, Vedvyas has earned numerous awards and global recognition, and represented the UAE as a torchbearer for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Oh, and she s only 17 years old. Despite her youth, Vedvyas proves that a person of any age can make a difference. In 2013, she travelled to Chicago to attend our Climate Reality Leadership Corps training and connect with other activists. Thanks in part to the skills and network she gained at the training, SynergY now has over 300 youth members who work to spread awareness and take action showing that even kids can make a huge difference. MORE https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/ten-surprising-climate-and-renewable-energy-activists https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=116&v=YfIK-utEZZ4 |
