Role of youth in combating climate change

For correspondence: Dr. Harshal. T. Pandve, Dept. of Community Medicine, Smt. Kashibai Navale Medical College, Narhe, Pune-411 041, India. E-mail: dr_ harshalpandve@ yahoo.co.in Climate change is one of the most critical global challenges of our times. Recent events have emphatically demonstrated our growing vulnerability to climate change. Climate change impacts range from affecting agriculture, further endangering food security, to sea-level rise and the accelerated erosion of coastal zones increasing the intensity of natural disasters, species extinction, and spread of vector-borne diseases. This issue is of immense importance for every global citizen. Hence it requires an initiative against it globally. [1]