Draft:Madhvi Chittoor

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Madhvi Chittoor is a 13-year-old Eco Warrior and an SDG STEAM advocate from Colorado, USA.

She is the youngest UN Child Advisor,[1] 2024 TIME Kid of the Year Honoree,[2] voted the Best Upcoming Peacemaker by 14 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Global Ambassador for EarthDay.org and Plastic Pollution Coalition. She has been a Climate Warrior since she was 5 years old and is also known as "Ban PFAS Beast", "No Styrofoam Ninja", "No Plastic Ninja" and "Ms. Policy". She has ushered large-scale impactful changes locally, nationally, and globally through advocacy, climate education, and policy changes via signature campaigns, public speeches, testimonies, meetings with and emails to many heads-of-states, legislators, diplomats, Climate scientists, businesses, artists, educationists, etc. In September 2023 she addressed the UN in Geneva[3] and in March 2023, she addressed the UN General Assembly in NY.[4] As per UN she made history as the youngest UN Child Advisor in the formulation of UNGC 26. She founded the non-profit Madhvi4EcoEthics at age 6 and the EcoEthics Global Movement at the age of 9 with operations in India, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Zambia, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, and many more.

A few of her policy successes are – Spearheaded 1) Global Plastic Policy with Madam VP Harris and US Secretary of State Mr. Anthony Blinken which lead to the US joining the Global Plastics Treaty, later ratified by the UNEA in March 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal 2) with EPA Water former Head Ms. Radhika Fox and US EPA Chief Mr. Michael Reagan to issue legally enforceable reduced PFAS guidance limits in Drinking water all over USA and also globally 3) with Governors to declare March as PFAS Pollution Impact Awareness Month and April as Plastic and Styrofoam Pollution Impact Awareness Month in Colorado 4) with legislators and Governors to bring about 3 laws in 2021, 2022. 2024 - to ban plastic bags and Styrofoam containers and to ban PFAS in consumer products in Colorado 5) In 2024 with ECMC on cumulative impacts and produced water governance for oil and gas industry 6) In 2021, 2022 and 2023 with EPA on Air Quality nationally and AQCC in Colorado 7) in 2020, with COGCC/ECMC the implement her suggestions as rules in the oil-and-gas permit process for surface water, stormwater and ground water conservation for the entire oil-and-gas industry in Colorado 8) the replacement of non-biodegradable carcinogenic Styrofoam lunch trays from 155 schools with 86000 students with compostable ones and eliminating 26 million Styrofoam containers from going to landfill from 2019 till date and saving the health of students and many more 7) Has designed and organized customized Climate Action and Climate Adaptation workshops, events, presentations empowering children and youth globally.

  1. ^ Leibee, Katrina. "Meet the Arvada 11-Year-Old Selected as a UN Child Advisor". Westword.
  2. ^ "Kid of the Year 2024". TIME.
  3. ^ https://www.youtube.com/fgNbOti_cVs
  4. ^ https://www.youtube.com/lGXJSx1bKPA?si=zzKMPfdpiDjzg18D