Bhopal

Two-day seminar to be held on climate change at State Assembly

Staff Reporter

In the perspective of Simhastha-2016, a two-day national seminar on ‘Global Warming and Climate Change: Towards Solution’ would be organised at the State Assembly on November 21 and 22.

While talking to mediapersons on Wednesday, chairman of the organising committee and MP Anil Madhav Dave said that with the help of Indian traditional knowledge solution to global warming and climate change is possible. The root cause of the problem is change in lifestyle. The ecological balance has been disturbed by the exponential exploitation of the resources which has lead to the problem of climate change. To address the problem according to science the emission per person has to be reduced, which is possible by refraining from materialistic lifestyle.

By organising the seminar, it would be propagated that the direction for solution for the climate change could be provided by the country, he added.

The seminar would be organised for different subjects related to development programmes by State Government and the series of programmes would be conducted before Simhastha, which is scheduled on April 2016 in Ujjain by State Government.

Organised by Urban Development and Environment Department, Narmada Samagra, Centre for Community Economics and Development Consultants Society (CECODECON), Madhya Pradesh Jan Abhiyan Parishad and Environment planning and coordination organsition and nodal agencies would participate in the seminar.

Chief guest of the inauguration session would be founder of Art of living Ravi Shankar and at the closing ceremony would  Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj would be present as chief guest.

Renowned environmentalist, scientists, researchers and representatives of State and Central Government would participate in the seminar.