Environment Education in Action

In a world increasingly affected by climate risks, environmental education plays an important. It empowers individuals with the knowledge to understand today’s environmental challenges and the skills needed to take meaningful action at both personal and community levels.

The Centre for Science and Environment’s Green Schools Programme (GSP) works with schools, teachers, and students across India to foster a deeper understanding of climate change. This includes its causes, impacts, connections to current environmental issues, and the practical solutions that can help address them.

After the successful implementation of the 2024 GSP Audit and receiving record school submissions from the state of Punjab, CSE, in collaboration with the Punjab State Council for Science & Technology (PSCST) under the Environment Education Programme of MoEF&CC, is organizing a two-day workshop. This workshop is specially designed for selected district school coordinators from across Punjab, aiming to strengthen and sustain environmental education initiatives and discussions within their schools. The workshop will delve deep into CSE’s Green Schools Programme and explore the avenues it offers for environment education in schools.

THE WORKSHOP
Sessions at the workshop will focus on the following key issues and activities:

• An introduction to India’s environmental challenges
• Environmental actions in everyday life co-joining with Mission LiFE objectives
• Teaching ‘environment’: GSP’s flagship programme -- GSP Audit -- that helps schools assess, improve and monitor their resource efficiency
• Climate Change and Heat – Scorching Summers and Schools – The concern and solutions
• AAETI Campus tour that would be akin to a ‘field or site visit’ – a location where participants can witness sustainable practices in action

This Workshop is open only to representatives selected/nominated by PSCST

For more information, please contact Neeraj Kumar at neeraj.kumar@cseindia.org