Awareness Program for school children on impact of climate
change and their role to mitigate it was organised by Institute of Applied
Systems & Rural Development (IASRD) jointly with ASSOCHAM and Marwah Studio
Noida on 16th July 2014 at Vijay Vidhyalay in village Tochhigarh district
Aligarh.
The objective of the Programme is to sensitize and encourage the
students for their active participation in mitigating the climate change and to
help them to learn, understand and address the impacts of global warming today.
Undoubtedly the climate change is going to affect the next
generation adversely. It is therefore necessary to initiate action to arrest
the change in deteriorating climate now. The children hence need to be
mainstreamed into larger debates on climate change, hazards and vulnerabilities
with an overview of the linkages between climate change and sustainable
development which is threatened by the increasing frequency of hazardous
weather and the inability of the poor and most vulnerable to adapt to climate
variability and extremes.
The primary reasons for the situation is the growing
urbanization, un-checked industrialization and drastic cutting of trees for one
or the other reasons. This is creating imbalance between environment and
growth. The most sufferer of this Climate change would be the children.
Shri NR Raje Rtd R&D Director, IOCL, Sh. Ranjesh Prasad
Development Expert, Sh. Ravindra Singh Managing Director, CDi and Dr KD Gupta
Chairman IASRD & ASSOCHAM National Council on Climate Change addressed
the students about the risks & mitigation measures of climate change. They
also stressed on the important role of tree plantation in mitigating the impact
of environmental problems.
The students of the School participated in Tree Plantation and
600 saplings of Jamun & Neem tree were planted after conclusion of the
program.