Youth Summit on Climate Change to be held in Guwahati, Gangtok

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Ranjan K Baruah

02 May, 2011

Climate change has become one of the challenging questions amongst us. It has thrown more questions than answers. People around the world have realised if proper action is not taken then the coming days might be problematic for many.

AS WE are aware that climate change has thrown more questions than answers and there is no other planet to leave for - its time to take action to combat climate change. With a view towards generating awareness on climate change young people from different parts of north east came together and formed Youth Alliance for Climate in 2008.

It was a youth programme conducted by Indo Global Social Service Society as a part of the SMILE programme. The participants of that programme decided to form a network as the discussion of the youth programme was on climate change. YAC organises programme in different parts of North East. Most of the programmes are with the young people of the region, which includes school students, college students and other young people.

As a part of the programme this year also YAC is organising a youth summit this month in Guwahati and Gangtok. The programme would be held in active association with Laya and INECC (Indian Network on Ethics and Climate Change). YAC and LAYA-INECC is organising this youth summit on climate change in Guwahati and in Gangtok which would be held in Guwahati on 17^th and 18^th May and 20^th May in Gangtok.

Laya is a Resource Center for Adivasis and is based in Vishakhapatnam. Laya has worked with Adivasi communities for more than two decades and has gone through several stages of successes and experienced many obstacles in addressing their core concerns.

On the other hand, INECC is a loosely structured national network comprising of individuals and organisation representatives interested in the climate issue from a micro-macro perspective. It connects the issues of climate change to larger sustainable development and social justice concerns. In this context INECC perceives policy changes in favour of communities who are most impacted by the climate crisis.