Twenty Million Students vs. Climate Change Based on case study entitled : “Paryavaran Mitra (Friend of Environment) Programme in Assam, a North Eastern State of India” Authored by : Simanta Kalita, from RCE Guwahati-Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Guwahati, India, Sudhir Kumar Sinha, from ArcelorMittal, New Delhi, India, Prabhjot Singh Sodhi, Pramod Kumar Sharma and Bijoy Sankar Goswami, from CEE, India and Partha Pratim Baruah, from Gauhati University, Guwahati, India Presented by : Simanta Kalita, at Asia Regional Forum on Biodiversity, Cha-am, Thailand, November 2011 India is targeting 20 million students to combat climate change. Paryavaran Mitra (Friend of Environment) is a nationwide initiative to transform 20 million students into Paryavaran Mitra through participation in curricular and co-curricular activities and projects. It is an action-based handprint, focusing on sustainability and climate change education. The goal of the Paryavaran Mitra programme is to create a network of young people across the nation to gain the knowledge, awareness and commitment to meet the challenges of global citizenship and climate change. A Paryavaran Mitra is a child, a teacher, or any individual who has taken steps from awareness to positive action, and reflects this commitment in every aspect of life; someone who takes a leadership role, and assumes responsibility to promote and initiate cooperative action in their spheres of influence. To become a Paryavaran Mitra, a school guides and builds the capacity of students to take positive environmental action at the individual, school, family and community levels. Figure 1. Map of the project location. ENCOURAGING PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN BUSINESS AND COMMUNITIES FOR BIODIVERSITY 89
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