Climate Change: An Urgent Need for Action | Deeksha Palepu | TEDxBathUniversity

After working with projects funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Deeksha discusses the effects of climate change and the drastic changes in weather patterns around the world. Focussing on the urgent and desperate need for action to combat climate change.​ Deeksha is a 2nd year BSc Economics student at the University of Bath. She has a passionate interest in sustainable development and in finding solutions to mitigate the impact human activities are having on the environment.

She has worked with the NGO APMAS on a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help improve the health of women and children in the slums of Hyderabad. During her time interning with the National Institution for Transforming India she also worked on a project on Infant and Mother Mortality rates in India.

She has given a TEDx talk with a focus on the energy stratgy needed to fuel sustainable development in India. She is a part of the One Young World Bath committee which is organising a conference which focuses on the Sustainable Development Goals.