Creating climate literacy should become a movement – Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar

Pune, May 12, 2018: “When it comes to climate change every individual and their collective action matters. I am concerned about the rate of carbon dioxide emissions happening in today’s scenario. Creating climate literacy should become a movement”, Said Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar, renowned Scientist and President
of
Pune International Centre (PIC) at a workshop conducted on ‘Climate Literacy’ today at Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA), Pune.

The workshop was jointly organized by PIC and Centre for Environment Education (CEE). Marked dignitaries like Dr. Mashelkar, Prof. Amitav Malik, Trustee, PIC and Sanskriti Menon, Program Director, CEE Urban Programs were present during the inauguration. Esha Apte, Member of PIC was the anchor of the program.

Adding further to the workshop Mashelkar said, we need to galvanize the scientific community by giving them big challenges. Basic change in thinking is needed when it comes to designing products. The need of the hour for us is to create business and environment leadership. We should shift from CSR 1.2 to CSR 2.2 – i.e. ‘Doing well and then doing good’ to ‘doing good by doing good’. It is important to think upon how production can be generated through environment friendly means. The return of climate change is both a personal and social responsibility.

Today our energy basket is tilted towards coal, oil and carbon fuels. Many cities are waking up to the fact that their money should not be used for global warming purpose, pointed Prof. Malik. We should encourage renewable energy like- wind and solar energy to four times and this change should be done in no time, he stated.

In a day long workshop Technical Sessions like Urban Planning, Electricity, Building and Construction Sector, Transport, Carbon Sinks and Waste Management and Climate Communication were conducted.