Young Climate Savers

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Indiablooms.com
Date:12/12/2008

       

    Young Climate Savers website launched

     

    Indiablooms News Service

     

    Kolkata, Dec 12: After the successful completion of Phase 1 of the Young Climate Savers (YCS) initiative,WWF-India and Tetra Pak announced the launch of the YCS website, in Hyderabad today. This website isthe first Indian website for school students on climate change and energy education

     

    Speaker of the Andhra Pradesh State Assembly, KR Suresh Reddy formally launched the website at a function held at the Bhaskar Auditorium, Birla Science Centre here.

     

    Young Climate Savers is a programme launched with an aim to create awareness across the student fraternity in India onclimate change, and through them to reach out to the larger community and to influence them to become 'climate savers'.

     

    The YCS is an education for sustainable development initiative aiming to educate 20,000 school children across India, andthrough them, to reach out and influence a larger audience on the impacts of climate change and the importance ofmitigating it. The YCS initiative is envisioned to be implemented over the course of several years.

     

    YCS Phase 1 reaches to over 20000 students at over 200 schools in India

     

    Farida Tampal, AP State Director, WWF-India said: "The website will be loaded with information on the YCS programmeand climate change and will look at targeting those schools that are not a part of programme yet. WWF India is looking ata dedicated professional to manage and update the website content on regular basis."

     

    Youth and children aged below 25 constitute close to three quarters of the population of our country. Therefore, it isessential that children are educated sufficiently on the various facets of climate change, and most importantly, onmeasures they can take to reduce emissions. Children can contribute by making minute adjustments in lifestyles which willaccumulate and result in substantial reductions in emissions, and can therefore become Young Climate Savers.

     

     "The rate at which climate change is taking place is extremely alarming. We want to reach out to a larger national and international audience with the launch of the YCS Website," added Jaideep Gokhale, Programme Head- Food for Development Office & Environment, Tetra Pak India Pvt. Ltd.