Key Achievements of the Workshops: • 74 media personnel were trained through 4 media workshops on climate change and sustainable development issues, global initiatives on handling these challenges and get oriented on reporting these issues effectively resulting in community awareness, advocacy and policy influence. • To date more than 50 press & electronic reporting/case studies appeared in the media. • Increase in the amount of media coverage given to climate change issues. • Compiled a database of journalists trained and stories they have published so far. SCIENCE EXPRESS CLIMATE ACTION SPECIAL (SECAS) TRAIN AND THE MULTIMEDIA MOBILE/PORTABLE E X H I B I T I O N I N T H E I N D I A N HIMALAYAN REGION CEE Himalaya and SDC again came together to support the Science Express Climate Action Special (SECAS), an initiative of CEE, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF & CC), Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Indian Railways. SECAS is an exhibition on wheels mounted on 16 AC coaches flagged off on 15th October 2015 and was running in 21 states till May 2016. The objective of this collaboration was to support SECAS activities in the Indian Himalayan Region and to enhance awareness of students/general public on climate change, adaptation and mitigation. During its journey, SECAS visited six stations in three states of Indian Himalayan Region, namely Amb Andura (9-10 November 2015) and Churaru Takarla (12-13 November 2015) in Himachal Pradesh (HP), Udhampur (17-20 November 2015) and Samba (21-23 November 2015) in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) and Haridwar (30 November 2015 to 2 December 2015) and Lalkuan (3-5 December 2015) in Uttarkhand. Since these stations lie in the mountain terrains and the train only halted for 2 or 3 days at each station making it difficult for the majority of people in the region to visit the train. Also the train has limited accessibility as it cannot cover the entire mountain terrains of the Indian Himalayan Region. Therefore CEE Himalaya and SDC decided to conduct activities at the platforms and in the cities of the stations where the train halted and also in Shimla in HP and Jammu in J&K where the train did not visit. For delivering an effective and motivational programme, a facilitator’s workshop was conducted wherein the volunteers and CEE Himalaya Team were detailed about the train and their roles during in conducting various activities. Two volunteers from each of the cities of Churaru Takarla, Amb Andura, Udhampur, Samba, Lalkaun and Haridwar were trained in the workshop. It was a two-day workshop to support them to prepare for these activities and also provide them the necessary literature and a kit. To support the activities at the platform and in the cities a science kit was developed for each volunteer. Science kits contained following items: couple of glasses (made of glass), flask (should be filled with hot water before the experiments), big glass air tight container, packet of balloons, a transparent big air filled ball, small packet of thermocol balls, a stirrer glass rod, an ink dropper, 2-3 small plastic balls (hollow from inside), 3-4 meters of wire (malleable which can be folded), a cello tape and a brown tape roll, a small bottle of potassium permanganate, an ice box, 2 permanent markers, a globe and map of the World, a clinical thermometer, a laboratory Proceedings of the International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the 339 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
Proceedings of International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the Sustainable Development Goals : Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016 at the Sirindhorn International Environmental Park, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
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