Environmentalist says Indian Govt to declare a climate Emergency

Hyderabad: Environmentalist, Prof. K. Purushotham Reddy said Global Warming is Real. Climate Change is playing havoc with people and nations. And he urged Indian Government to declare a Climate Emergency immediately. It is the time for the Indian government to take corrective measures on a war footing basis to combat climate change, told while addressing the students at the closing of Model UN Conference.
Elaborating further, Purushotham Reddy said, declaring a Climate Emergency it helps to Government to bring out new laws for the effective implementation of them to protect Mother Earth. It will help mobilise resources and speed up protection to the ecology, people, species, and ecosystems.  St. Peter’s High School located at Bowenpally near Secunderabad today organized a Model UN Conference at its premises. The 2nd Edition of the Model UN Conference was participated by over 200 students who acted as delegates representing 25 countries including USA, Russia, China, India, Pakistan and Turkey, shared Mr T. Alphonse Reddy, Correspondent of St. Peter’s High School.
students who acted as delegates representing 25 countries at Model UN Conference.
Preksha Mythri, a UN Envoy at the Model UN Conference also demanded a Climate Emergency. Adding further she appealed to the citizens of the globe in general and heads of UN member states in specific to help UN sustain. It was disheartening for me to learn from news reports that the UN is exhausting peacekeeping cash reserves to such an extent that the organisation may not be able to pay its staff. Future belongs to us. We need PEACE. Let us support the UN in its efforts by funding it sufficiently, she informed.  The UK became the first country to declare a climate emergency. In fact, it was the first country in the world to do so. Following it, several local governments all over the world have done. Nearly 20 countries have already done so far.  Prof. K. Purushotham Reddy, a well-known Academician and Environmentalist were the Chief Guest and T. Bala Reddy, Chairman of the St. Peter’s Group of Educational Institutions presided over the closing conference.