Kanika Kaushik

Misimi Isimi was just eight-years-old when she first started getting bothered by the waste around her neighbourhood. “Growing up it was difficult for me to breathe in society with a huge amount of waste littered everywhere,” says the Lagos resident. So she took up a broom and a trash bag and started cleaning. She did not wait for the elders around her to do the work. On the way she inspired her friends and family and earned the moniker of ‘Miss Environment’.

In the second episode of ‘Climate Course Correction’, Siddharth Singh, an energy and climate policy expert, talks to Smitha Verma about how energy efficiency can help nations fight climate change. He is the Lead India Analyst and Coordinator at International Energy Agency (IEA) and also the co-lead author of India Energy Outlook report 2021. He is also the author of ‘Great Smog of India’ and talks about how air pollution remains a much-ignored invisible health crisis..

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched its India campaign on Monday with a call to choose #PlasticSeBehtar.