18 April 2009
TNW Nepal organized a talk show on environmental issues on 18 April 2009 Saturday at Vajra Academy. The speaker was Mr. Karna Shakya (Patron/TNW and prominent conservationist).Mr. Shakya gave a talk on the importance of environment conservation for the sustainable development of the nation. He also shared his six decades of experience in environment conservation. More than hundred people from the local communities and the youths had attended the green talk show. The program was organized in collaboration with the country's first green school, Vajra Academy.
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| Karna Shakya, Patron/ TNW giving a Talk on Environment Conservation. |
15 January 2009
YOUTHS' SUMMIT ON GLOBAL WARMING
Team for Nature and Wildlife (TNW) Nepal, a youths' group organized a youths' summit on global warming in order to aware the youths from different professional backgrounds on 15 th January 2009. This summit is the first activity under the NATIONWIDE YOUTHS' CLIMATE CHANGE CAMPAIGN IN NEPAL.
More than 50 youths from different sectors like media, film, theatre, sports, human rights, law, arts, business, culture, fashion and modeling, music, politics, education etc In the summit, four prominent environmentalists had presented a paper about the adverse impacts of climate change on Nepal. |
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| (Han Haijnen/WHO, Sashank Pandey/VSBK, Basanta Shrestha/ICIMOD and Anil Chitrakaar/Ashoka Foundation) |
In the first session, a leading environmentalist, Mr.Basanta Shrestha from ICIMOD had presented a multi media presentation with information about the impact of global warming on Nepalese mountains. Likewise, Environment Health Adviser from UNWHO Han Haijnen outlined about the need of government to make a national plan on climate change relating with the public health impacts as well.Mr.Anil Chitrakar, a prominent environmentalist expressed we have to have a negotiation with the developed or industrialized countries so that we can have fair incentive.
In the second session,Environment Health Research Officer from Nepal Health Research Council(NHRC)Mr. Megh Nath Dhimal presented a paper on health impact of climate change. He outlined that public health depends on multiple factors like geographical factors(baseline climate, abundance of natural resources, elevation),biological sensitivity(developmental stage, preexisting medical conditions, genetic factors) and socio economic factors(exposure to harmful agents, underlying diseases, ability to adapt or respond) about the adverse impacts of climate change on human health.Likewise,Mr. Sashank Pandey, Program Environmentalist from VSBK presented a paper on “Cleaner Technology for mitigating air pollution and climate change in Brick making sector”.He outlined about brick industries and environmental, health, and economic concerns.
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Green Drama show
TNW Theatre Group staged street theatre shows “We are in danger”. The shows were conducted four times at four different city centers (Kathmandu,Lalitpur,Bhaktapur and Patan).The shows were held on 7 th ,16 th , 18 th and 19 th February 2009.The street drama was intended to generate awareness on the adverse impacts of air pollution.The event was supported by VSBK/SDC. TNW is the first organization in Nepal to organize green theatre with its own theatre group. |
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