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Meet India’s eight-year-old climate activist

Meet India’s eight-year-old activist

Licipriya Kangujam has already had run-ins

with police and security

as she pushes for India’s government

to enforce change climate law

(SOUNDBITE) (English) YOUNG INDIAN CLIMATE ACTIVIST LICYPRIYA KANGUJAM, 8, SAYING:

“I'm fighting to save our planet and our future. Today, I'm here in front of the Parliament House to tell our honorable prime minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi, and our MPs to pass the climate change law as soon as possible from the paper to become action."

Horrified by the pollution in Delhi

Licipriya founded The Child Movement

The organization mobilizes young people

in her home country

and she hopes to become

more than just the ‘Indian Greta’

(SOUNDBITE) (English) YOUNG INDIAN CLIMATE ACTIVIST LICYPRIYA KANGUJAM, 8, SAYING:

"I want every national and international media to write our real name while writing our story because we have our own identity, own name, own country, and our own story. If you call me Greta of India then you are not writing a story, you are deleting a story."