very warm welcome to the we on climate summit i would now like to invite we on ceo and editor-in-chief mr sudhir chaudhary to deliver the opening address [Music] he is the ceo and editor-in-chief of weon delivering the opening address is mr sudhir chowdhury [Music] [Music] good evening ladies and gentlemen it's my pleasure and honor to welcome you all at vyond's first climate summit but not the last and today i want to start with few questions what is our top priority when we look at the problems that need to be solved like take for example my own country india for decades we have been focusing on bijli sarak pani means electricity roads water food and our entire politics has been centered on these basic issues and even today these issues remain the primary issues of discussion for the average citizen they are being discussed in elections and everywhere on the streets on the other hand issues like climate change issues like mental health are discussed on very elite forums of international conferences and seminars the common citizen and even the mainstream media is still far away from these issues and they still think that climate change is someone else's problem and it will never touch their lives but the fact is that climate change is already changing our lives it's a reality it's all around us i will give you our most basic example about my own life i want to share some personal experiences which are very basic in nature but they tell the story of the impact of climate change and i'll start from myself i come from a middle-class indian family and i bought doubt my first air conditioner when i started working before that stage i neither felt the need nor did i have the money to buy the ac but today life without an air conditioner even one day without an air conditioner is unthinkable i wonder what has changed now me [Music] the city where i live or the climate and i guess all of these during my childhood we used to have water coolers in our house not the air conditioners and we were fine with it one day i asked my father how did we survive all those years without an air conditioner used to spend afternoons under the shade of a tree drink water from earthen pots and felt the fresh cool breeze every morning and evening that seems to have disappeared now it's so rare now today we have air purifiers in our houses in literally every room recently i bought a new car and the salesman told me that they have added a new feature and the car now comes with an air purifier and an aqi monitor climate change can push us back to a situation when we'll be we'll be deprived even of our basic needs we are constantly innovating our products and our lifestyle to suit the changing climate but not doing enough to arrest the change i'm no climate expert i'm not a domain expert and i realize this fact that people like me i mean i'm a journalist i host shows every night and i sometimes report about climate change also but i still feel i realize that i need to know more my viewers all of us we need to know more and the realization that we need to know more is the first basic step so the summit is an attempt to change our approach today as a news channel we want to regret offer this platform to the domain experts to the policy makers to all of you to raise awareness and take the steps that need to be taken once again i welcome you all to the beyond climate summit thank you so much and i hope you will enjoy the evening thank you [Music] [Music] you
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