Where: Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad - Pan India
Solutions: Youth, Education and advocacy, Sustainable cities and communities
1M1B has launched the Climate Action Clubs across schools in India with the objective to activate youth in schools to take action towards the climate crisis. To build a sustainable future, we require the ideas, passion, energy, creativity, innovation, and initiative of young people around the world. We need youth to take charge to save the world!
Over 10,000 school students have taken the climate action pledge and are taking steps to reduce water usage, reuse old clothes to address the pollution caused by fast fashion, reduce food carbon footprint by having more healthy plant-based meals, segregating waste, planting saplings, and walking/cycling for short distances. 1M1B hopes to nurture these youth as human-centered leaders who take conscious actions that don't harm the planet. And with the progress and impact they make this year, they hope to take their learnings to the government and education boards in India to integrate climate education in all schools in an exciting and rewarding manner for the students.
Through the clubs, they aim to activate 100,000 youth climate action champions in the next 4 months who will take individual actions and drive communities towards climate action.
In less than one month of the launch of the clubs, they have activated over 10,000 climate champions. These students and teachers are actively taking action to ensure they are not harming but helping heal the planet.
Since this is not part of the school curriculum, 1M1B faced obstacles in convincing teachers, schools, and students to be part of the clubs. However, after sharing with them how being part of the clubs and taking action, they are helping save our planet, they were more than happy to join. The other challenge 1M1B faced is addressing making climate actions exciting and rewarding for the students. For this, they have created a challenge-based platform leadzworld.com that enables youth to log their activities and in turn get certificates and reward points which can be redeemed later.
Photo provided by 1M1B Foundation
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