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About this webinar
Orientation: School Champs For Climate Action campaign
FairGaze, in partnership with United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan (UNIC), is launching a four month drive to spread awareness around climate change and the need to ACT NOW
We all know that children are catalysts of change. The four-month campaign aims to include these children as change makers towards the fulfillment of Sustainable Goal 13 (Climate Action). The campaign includes a pan- India contest for school students to share their impact stories of sustainable actions against climate change.
Apart from the ongoing contest, this campaign also aims to encourage the understanding of the climate crisis and individual actions through meaningful discussions on climate challenges and solutions. To fulfill the same objective, FairGaze is prepared to organize the first orientation session of the campaign.
The Orientation session will have an eminent climate expert who will shed light on the pressing issue of climate change, the cause and implications and the importance of individual sustainable actions, to bring about a larger and long-term positive impact on the environment, further on the lives of people and animal species.
The session also aims to spread awareness about its ongoing campaign for school students- School Champs For Climate Action (https://sdg.fairgaze.com/one-day-for-climate.html) and motivate maximum school children to actively participate in the change-making. The orientation session will also shed in-depth light on the “ten impactful actions”, as shared by the United Nations at https://www.un.org/en/actnow/ten-actions.
Speakers/Mentors
Ms. Gayatri Raghwa Chief Speaker
Environment Education Consultant for UNEP India
Gayatri Raghwa currently serves as an Environment Education Consultant for UNEP India office. She coordinates global environment educational programmes implemented by Youth, Education & Advocacy unit of UNEP and also networks with various stakeholders for India specific environment educational initiatives. Currently she is engaged with the implementation of UNEP’s Tide Turner Plastic Challenge which reaches out to youth from schools and colleges across India.
A gold medallist at the postgraduate degree course in geography, Gayatri took her M.Phil. Degree from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, with specialization on ‘The Human Impact on the Environment’. Since then, she has been ardently committed to spreading education and awareness about the environment. She taught for several years at university and high school before devoting 15 years at the Environment Agency- Abu Dhabi, to raise the profile of environment education in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi by strategizing, designing developing and implementing environment education initiatives across all sections of the society. She has travelled widely and has represented the Agency and the UAE in several international conferences and meetings on environment education.
She has co-authored several publications and resource materials on environmental education. She has received accolades for her efforts to promote Environment Education from across the world. In 1998, she was conferred the Amateur Naturalist Award by the Emirates Natural History Group. In 2018 she received the Outstanding environment educator award in the global category by the North American Association for environment education. (NAAEE).
Ms. Gauri WadehraModerator, Student
Gauri Wadehra is a 15 year old from Delhi, an aspiring poet who enjoys writing to express herself. She is a keen learner and gives her best to everything she devotes herself to. She's also a passionate speaker and loves to participate in MUNs. She dedicates her free time to reading, singing, basketball and playing varied musical instruments.
Benefits Of Webinar
Listen and learn from the chief speaker of the session, an eminent climate expert about SDG 13 (Climate Action).
Learn about the United Nations’ “ten impactful actions” that can help you identify the different ways in which you can contribute to climate action.
Take notes about the current scenario of climate change, alarming statistics and the small & sustainable baby steps required to combat it.
Get the opportunity to interact directly with the chief speaker to have your queries answered.
Get to learn about the ongoing campaign ‘School Champs For Climate Action’ and how you can participate in it.
