Nepal: Climate change education and awareness program on wheels
The first-ever Climate Change Mobile Library in Nepal begins its three-week journey from Kathmandu today, 16 December 2010. It aims to educate and raise awareness of climate change issues on wheels. Taking library materials and other resources, climate lectures and interaction programs to the grassroots, it will reach community-based community organizations, students, and local officials from the Western to Eastern part of Nepal during a three-week long campaign. It will be officially inaugurated tomorrow, 17 December by the Vice Chancellor of Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) Prof. Dr. SR Kafle at the Amar Singh Higher Secondary School in Pokhara.
The Climate Change Mobile Library campaign is being spearheaded by NAST and is one of the activities of the Nepal Climate Change Knowledge Management Center (NCCKMC). Entrusted to NAST, the NCCKMC serves as a dedicated facility for providing climate change knowledge management and learning support to policymakers, researchers, students, and the general public. By providing learning facilities and opportunities, NCCKMC will be critical in advancing climate studies in Nepal. One of the facilities offered by the NCCKMC is a climate change library which is open to the public free of charge. It was established in partnership with the Ministry of Environment with support from Embassy of Denmark, UK Department for International Development, Global Environment Facility, and UNDP Nepal under the National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) Project.
Contact:
DINESH R BHUJU, PhD
Chief of Science Faculty, NAST and
Team Leader, NCCKMC
Phone: + (977) 155-0828; Mobile: + (977) 9841 992216
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]