{"id":31710,"date":"2021-04-17T23:03:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T23:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=31710"},"modified":"2021-04-17T23:03:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T23:03:20","slug":"these-teenage-climate-activists-are-pushing-for-change-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=31710","title":{"rendered":"These teenage climate activists are pushing for change in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bushfires in Australia in January 2020 destroyed lives, homes and wildlife. <\/p>\n<p>A study by the World Weather Attribution consortium said that global warming boosted the risk of the hot, dry weather likely to cause fires by 30%. <\/p>\n<p>Teenage climate activists Airly, Ava and Will want more to be done to tackle climate change in Australia, one of the world&#8217;s biggest per capita greenhouse gas emitters. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Climate Action&#8221; is Goal 13 of the UN&#8217;s Sustainable Development Goals, a set of targets announced in 2015 to transform lives around the world by 2030. The UN wants countries around the world to take &#8220;urgent action&#8221; to combat climate change.<\/p>\n<p>This video is part of Project 17, a BBC World Service series produced in partnership with the Open University, in which 17-year-olds look at progress on the UN&#8217;s 17 goals. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/w13xtvfr\" class=\"ssrcss-hiczm3-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Find programmes and videos here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i class=\"ssrcss-po6dm6-ItalicText e5tfeyi1\">Producer: Phoebe Keane<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"ssrcss-po6dm6-ItalicText e5tfeyi1\">Video Journalist: Eleanor Layhe<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-australia-56765408\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bushfires in Australia in January 2020 destroyed lives, homes and wildlife. A study by the World Weather Attribution consortium said that global warming boosted the risk of the hot, dry weather likely to cause fires by 30%. Teenage climate activists Airly, Ava and Will want more to be done to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/p09f059g.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}