Mrs. Sheila Dikshit to launch Awareness Program for Delhi Schools on Climate Change & GreenSpaces Ideas: an online platform for Ideas on Conservation

Mrs. Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of NCT of Delhi, will be inaugurating an Awareness program on Climate Change for Delhi Schools and GreenSpaces Ideas, being launched by The Climate Project-India and Paharpur Business Centre.

The launch is being held on the occasion of Earth Day, Thursday, 22 April, 2010, 6 p.m. at 26, Prithiviraj Road, New Delhi-110011.

The awareness program for Delhi Schools aims to make all school children in Delhi aware about the Challenge of Climate change and its impact.

GreenSpaces Ideas is an online platform for posting ideas for green living; Mrs. Sheila Dikshit will inaugurate the initiative by posting her idea for energy and water conservation.

By doing this we aim to make Delhi a Healthier, Cleaner and Happy city for the ‘Green’ Commonwealth Games.

The Government of Delhi and Indo-German Chamber of Commerce, Indo – American Chambers of Commerce have partnered us for this program.

The Climate Project India (TCPI) began in March 2008 with a training conducted for civic and business leaders by Nobel Laureate Al Gore and Dr. R.K. Pachauri. These trained leaders form the core of the project’s volunteer based organization which now spans six countries and over 2,500 climate leaders. Its mission is to raise awareness on man-made Climate Change and to help India respond.

Since its inception in India, the Climate Leaders have presented to corporate, politicians, universities, clubs, schools, building societies and to anyone that will listen on the need for urgent action on Climate Change. Over a thousand presentations and workshops have been conducted by these committed volunteers.

Mr. Kamal Meattle, Trustee, TCPI & CEO- Paharpur Business Centre & Software Technology Incubator Park (PBC^TM – STIP) & GreenSpaces is an environmental activist, he has taken up social and environmental issues by creating public awareness as well as advocating policy change.

PBC^TM – STIP will be the first USGBC LEED Platinum (Existing Building) certified soon and GreenSpaces is being built as the World’s most energy efficient commercial building. This is very important given that 40% of the world’s energy is used by buildings and that the world’s energy demand is expected to increase by 30% in the next decade. 60% of the World inhabitants will be living in cities with a population of over 1 million by 2024.

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