GREEN ANNOUNCEMENTS

YUVA Meet 2012: ‘Conserving Global Commons: Transforming Knowledge into Action’: This year, the 4th YUVA Meet will be organized on 30th and 31st January, 2012 and will focus on the theme: ‘Conserving Global Commons: Transforming Knowledge into Action’. Despite the vast knowledge and information available about the impact of human activities on environment, little has been done towards conservation of global commons. The YUVA Meet 2012 will focus on how this knowledge can be converted into action and inspire the youth to work towards a sustainable future. 

YUVA Meet : Considering that the youth are the future of the world, DSDS encourages the participation of youngsters at the summit by organizing Youth Unite for Voluntary Action (YUVA) Meet that brings together youngsters from all over the world. During the two-day meet, that precedes the DSDS, the young audience attends talks by leading experts on environmental issues and understand ways in which climate change can be mitigated, through group activities and role plays. One outstanding youth is awarded the Green Globe award and some are selected to be delegates at the DSDS.

The YUVA Meet 2012 is being organized in collaboration with Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and British Council with the active support from the United Nations University. As part of YUVA Meet, a series of seminars are being organized in 7 states and Union Territories of the country. The objective of these seminars is to focus on issues related to conservation and protection of regional commons and provide a platform for deliberation on actions required towards implementing the concept of sustainable development. Go to Event Website here.

About World Sustainable Development Forum (WSDF): The World Sustainable Development Forum (WSDF), established by TERI in 2005, identifies, analyzes and disseminates policy interventions to enhance human well-being and create conditions for a sustainable future. The forum is supported by distinguished patrons and advisory committee members, comprising global leaders, policy makers, industry and academia. As part of its outreach activities, the forum conducts Regional Sustainable Development Summit (RSDS) and DSDS to spread key messages on issues of sustainable development in varied contexts. The forum conducted the first regional summit under the WSDF-RSDS series in Shirakawa, Japan in 2006, followed by the second RSDS in 2007 in Tunisia. In 2009, two regional summits were held in Greece and the Philippines on ‘Climate Change and Challenges for Future Generations’ and a ‘High-level Dialogue on Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific: A Development Challenge’, respectively. Under the WSDF-DSDS series, DSDS is being hosted annually since 2001.