Union minister Harsh Vardhan today urged everyone, especially students, to do their bit in order to sensitise people about climate change and global warming.
The Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC)
had launched "Green Good Deeds" campaign which included around 700 environment-friendly works that a person can do by merely changing his behaviour to protect the environment.
"India is also facing the impact of global warming and climate change. People must take a pledge to contribute for the protection of environment... But when they think of doing something for the betterment of environment, people think of planting a sapling or protecting tree but they cannot think beyond this," Harsh Vardhan, who is the Minister of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, said.
"We should think what we can do in the fields of energy, water, transport, river, ocean etc. How can we contribute towards the protection of environment? We have launched 'green good deeds' that included 600-700 small things that we can do without spending a single penny. We have to just change our outlook and behaviour in doing environment friendly works," Vardhan said.
Vardhan was addressing a two-day East India Climate Change Conclave 2018 in the state capital today.
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The conclave was attended by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, his deputy Sushil Kumar Modi, Chhattisgarh Forest Minister Mahesh Gagda and representatives from six states -- Odisha, Jharkhand, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and West Bengal.
The conclave aims to discuss discuss and exchange ideas on climate change issues in the eastern states.
School children, who were present here at the function in large numbers, will serve as "Green Sainiks" to broad-base the "Green Good Deeds" campaign to take it down to the grassroots level successfully, he said.
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