Framing the Debate on Climate Change
The overall goal of this project was to raise climate change awareness among students of eight North Indian Universities across seven states through holding lectures and debates. The North Indian Universities that participated were Kurukshetra University, Central University Rajasthan, Chandigarh University, Kumaun University, Himachal Pradesh University, Banaras Hindu University, Allahabad University and JamiaMiliaIslamia University
The program was envisaged such that the first two days of the symposium held a lecture sessions followed by a debate competition among the selected students on the third day. This project was a major step forward to raise climate awareness involving the youth, the most vibrant and motivated community who will propagate knowledge across society. While the lectures covered areas ranging from the drivers of climate change, its indicators to impact on environment, society, lifestyle in one hand, on the other, it also addressed issues such as climate change policies in India, mitigation and adaptive measures, global frameworks on combating climate change etc. University level programme was conducted in the remaining two Universities: University of Allahabad at Allahabad and JamiaMiliaIslamia University, Delhi.
Across 8 Universities, altogether 1000 students, 75 research scholars and nearly 60 faculty members participated in the symposia. A final event was held on 29th May 2018 at American Centre, New Delhi. This event saw participation of University winners from each of the university campuses where the programme was conducted initially. The University winners from Kurukshetra University and Banaras Hindu University were jointly awarded the winners of the inter-university debate competition.