Climate Advocacy

Six years, one escalating thread

This didn't start at Belém. It started in a Grade 6 classroom — and Belém is what six years of steadily increasing responsibility made possible.

Origin

Formal engagement with climate advocacy began in Grade 6, joining the school's Climate Club, following earlier eco-club involvement.

Escalation

Participation in school eco-initiatives; outside work including Hyderabad lake cleaning and health awareness drives; a central role in delivering the Centre for Global Education's Decarbonise Program at school — which led directly to the COP 30 invitation.

Output

Co-development of the Children's Climate Manifesto with young delegates from multiple countries, including proposals for legislative reform; the Global Student Environment Survey; presentation of the manifesto's core recommendations at Belém, with blue zone access across the conference as an invited UNFCCC Global Representative.

Forward

Placeholder — her stated position on structured climate education for children and youth, and on the links between global policy choices and local outcomes such as respiratory and allergy complaints among Hyderabad students, belongs here in her own words.