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New Delhi: In a message to children of the nation on the occasion of Children’s Day on November 14 from the on going COP 22 in Marrakech, Morocco, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Anil Madhav Dave, strongly urged them children not to waste food. “Take only as much food in the plate, as you can eat. Wasting food is akin to being a ‘Carbon Criminal’,” he said.
Dave said that the lifestyle with minimum carbon footprint followed by Gandhiji, Nelson Mandela, Buddha and Mahavira hold the key to fight climate change. Speaking after releasing the book – ‘Low Carbon Lifestyles – Right Choices for Our Planet’ at COP 22 in Marrakech, Morocco, the Environment Minister said, “Let us make a lifestyle of minimum carbon footprint a movement of the future. Winds of change always start from self and from within,” Dave added, according to a PIB release.