KATOWICE: An Indian private project, HelpUsGreen, which collects flowers from temples and mosques across many cities\towns in Uttar Pradesh and recycles them to produce natural incense, organic fertilizers and biodegradable packaging material, is one of 15 ground-breaking projects from around the world that has won this year's UN climate action award.This Indian enterprise has specifically been identified for its potential to clean up river Ganga and empower thousands of women by giving them a secure life by engaging them into an eco-friendly recycling works round the year. The project currently employs 1,260 women in Uttar Pradesh, helps in preventing chemical pesticides from entering into the river through temple waste.Developed as the world's first profitable solution to the monumental temple waste problem, the HelpUsGreen's products are handcrafted by women who earlier used to be manual scavengers. The HelpUsGreen aims to provide livelihoods to 5,100 women and recycle 51 tonnes of temple waste daily by 2021.Noting the initiative as one of the key ground-breaking projects, the UN climate change body has shared that the HelpUsGreen can easily be replicated in any city. It currently works in Uttar Pradesh, with plans to expand to Bangladesh, and Nepal. New products are in the works (including a biodegradable Styrofoam alternative) and they are in talks with the government of India to scale up across the country.Under HelpUsGreen,11,060 metric tonnes of temple-waste has, so far, been recycled. As a result,110 metric tonnes of chemical pesticides that enter the river through temple waste have been offset.The other 14 projects which won the UN 'Momentum for Change' climate action award showcase how ideas, big and small, are successful in tackling climate change. The 'Momentum for Change' initiative, spearheaded by the UN Climate Change secretariat, shines light on some of the most practical examples of what people are doing to combat climate change. These projects are from Germany, Sri Lanka Australia , Norway, Canada, Syria, Rwanda, Brazil , UK, Haiti, Sweden, USA and Chile.All these 15 game-changing initiatives in 14 countries were honoured as winners of the UN Climate Action Award at a special ceremony at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 24) here on Tuesday evening.