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Posted: July 3, 2008
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Students Spread Awareness of Climate Change

Dmitry, Kate, Sveta and Nidhi
Climate champion
A group of high school students were selected from 13 countries across the globe to act as International Climate Champions and get other students involved in stopping climate change. Each country's champions created a video to help spread awareness. Below are videos produced by students from Russia and India

Russian climate champions

Dmitry, Sveta and Kate are students from Russia. Their video shows some of the consequences and potential effects of climate change.



Climate change in India

Nidhi Patel is from Gujarat, India, and studies at New Era Senior Secondary School. In her video she talks about how climate change is affecting her country.


 


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Dmitry, Sveta and Kate are climate champions from Russia. Nidhi is a climate champion for India. All the international climate champions were chosen to help spread the word about climate change and to get others involved.


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