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Ridhima Pandey, referred to by some as India's Greta Thunberg, is an 11-yr-old climate activist. One of the 16 young activists who filed a lawsuit in the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child, Pandey is from Uttarakhand. She says her mission is to "save the future".
On the website of Children vs Climate Crisis, Pandey's bio reads: "I want a better future. I want to save my future. I want to save our future. I want to save the future of all the children and all people of future generations".
The 11-year-old climate activist's effort began in 2013, when
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