GCSD Climate Leadership Training Programme
Bangaloreans, if you are interested to host a Climate Leadership Training Programme at your campus, please feel free to contact us.
Colleges outside of Bangalore, please get in touch with Mr. Suren from IYCN - suren@iycn.in
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GCSD organised its first pilot 'Climate Leadership Training Programme' on 23rd November 2008 at St. Joseph's College, one of the most prestigious colleges in Bangalore.
This training programme was supported by Sahaas, Center for Social Markets, and the Indian Youth Climate Network.
This programme could have only happened with the encouragment of the Principal, Fr. Ambrose Pinto who himself is very concerned how we can address Climate Change issue in the city, the country and across the globe.
The Coordinator, President and the members of the Center for Social Concern (CSC) and NSS took the leadership in mobilising the students from their college.
There were about 55 students and few faculty who were part of this Training Programme and at the end of the day all of them enjoyed the programme, had high level of energy and enthusiasm to do something in their college and in the city with regard to this theme.
All the participants took the Climate Challenge India pledge to...
- Educate myself and my organisation about climate change
- Determine my carbon footprint and reduce it
- Help vulnerable communities adapt to climate change as I can
- Support science-based and equitable policies and measures that will reduce national and international greenhouse gas emissions
At the conclusion, the feedback from the participants helped us to rework our training course and we are looking forward to conducting many such programmes in Bangalore and if possible across the globe.
Training Outline 10:00 am – 5:00 pm:
- Introduction about GCSD and welcome note by Nikhil Infant
- Inspiring speech (video presentation) by Ms. Malini Mehra (CSM)
- Film Screening 'Inconvenient Truth'
- Introduction on Climate Change - PowerPoint presentation by Rajeev Kumar
(what, how and why's of CC + talking about Mitigation and Adaptation)
- Small group discussion
- Lunch
- Energisers by Richard, Andre Maciel and Kurt Archer
- Thematic Orientation in the context of Climate Change
Energy and Industry (15 mins) by Rahul Sharma
Water (15 mins) by Anugraha John
Bio-Diversity & Agriculture (15 mins) by Digu Aruchamy
Waste Management (15 mins) by Brinda Gourav
- Group Discussion
- Leadership: How to engage & organize people, guide to implementing a Climate Change project.
Joint Presentation by Digu Aruchamy and Anugraha John
- Distribution of Certificates
- Group Photo and conclusion
- Vote of thanks by Dhiraj John