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#India, a megadiverse country with only 2.4% of the world's land area, accounts for 7-8% of all recorded wildlife species.

According to UNICEF , approximately 1 billion children are at an 'extremely high risk' of the impacts of the

#India’s estimated 1.5 million to 4 million waste pickers who are undervalued and underpaid, do not even have a place in social security schemes. It's high time their invaluable work is acknowledged & formalised as essential work.

According to a new research by UQ News, Global coastal regions are diminishing rapidly due to #ClimateChange. This emphasizes the need to act quickly and decisively if we hope to conserve and restore whatever is left of our precious coastal ecosystems #ConserveCoastalEcosystems.

According to a study by NTU Singapore published in the scientific journal proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, an  increase in the global temperature due to #ClimateChange has the ability to change the micro-organisms in the air affecting the human health as well as agricultural crop yields.

#Climate change affects the working poor, especially those who work in the informal sector. They also lack social protection or employment benefits. Achieving #SocialJustice through formal employment is a prerequisite for reducing poverty and inequality. #WorldDayOfSocialJustice

According to Our World In Data, #ClimateChange induced natural disasters can be highly variable and kill on average 60,000 people per year, making them responsible for 0.1% of global deaths, exposing the stark inequalities in society between the wealthy and poor #ActOnClimate

As per a study by American Geophysical Union, #ClimateChange is causing irreversible deoxygenation of the #Ocean's middle depths that support much of the world's fisheries threatening its very existence. There is a pressing need for urgent ambitious ocean action on a global scale #OceanActionNow

As per research by MAKAAM, women farmers in #India from poor families or vulnerable castes with limited social capital, face challenges from gaining control over family-owned land to accessing credit, repaying loans and even finding work as labourers #ClimateActionNow

As per the data analysis of more than 1500 regions over the past 40 years by Potsdam Institute, it is found that economic growth goes down when the number of days with extreme rainfall go up. This could reduce global economic output by 7-14 per cent by 2100. #ClimateChange #ActOnClimate