Students Need to Know About Impact of Climate Change

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 main streamed 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 urbanisation,un-checked industrialisation 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.