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To sensitise the youth with impending hazards of climate change, the British Council in partnership with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), launched the second edition of the 'The International Climate Champions' programme. As part of this programme, 60 Indians and five Sri Lankan students will be selected as ambassadors to communicate the message of climate change and work towards mitigating its effects in India. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed recently between the British Council and TERI to implement this programme.

"The International Climate Champions programme is one of the four facets of the 'Low Carbon Futures Project' that has been initiated by the British Council to reduce the scale of carbon emissions across key cities of South East Asian countries," explains Les Dangerfield, acting director, British Council, India. The other strands of this project include establishing global networks of low carbon scientists, initiating workshops where experts can exchange ideas in terms of constructing green buildings and sensitising writers, journalists and film makers so that they can effectively comprehend and communicate issues related to greenhouse/carbon emissions.

According to Dangerfield, this project mirrors the UK government's commitment to reduce green house emissions by 30%in the coming decade. Incidentally the UK became the first country in the world to introduce a legally binding framework to cut greenhouse gas emissions with three major pieces of legislation - the climate change, energy and planning bills receiving Royal assent on November 26 this year.

RK Pachauri, director general, TERI and chair Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says, "Controlling green house emissions is one of the key challenges for combating global warming and all countries have to adopt eco-friendly and sustainable energy
alternatives. However, in doing so there are a different set of challenges that developed countries and developing/emerging countries have to contend with."

Explaining this in the context of India and UK, Pachauri says, "In UK, most of the infrastructure in terms of public amenities is already in place and is technologically advanced. Hence the challenge there is assessing the eco-friendly quotient of existing technologies and going through a phase of transition and replacement where required. However, in India, a considerable amount of infrastructure building is still in process. The challenge here is developing and implementing technology in infrastructure that is eco-friendly." Pachauri added that partnerships with developed countries would help in transferring technology to the developing world.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Education/Green_partnership/articleshow/3815094.cms

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