New Delhi, Feb. 26 -- Dia Mirza, United Nations National Goodwill Ambassador, underlined the relevance of encouraging "mindful consumption" for environmental conservation and the significance of involving children and young to promote meaningful change in climate debates.

Speaking on the concluding day of the International Conference on Carbon Markets, "Prakriti 2025" here, Dia Mirza said, "Big change will only occur when it starts from the top down because behaviours sometimes take hundreds of years to change."

Sharing her vision for sustainability, Dia stated that "My dream sustainability project, if finances didn't have any upper limit, would be one, to eradicate each and every unit of single use plastics, and two, a scenario where eve...