Speaking at the inauguration of Eni Children’s Education Programme on “Petroleum Geology, Global Warming and Energy Efficiency Campaign” here at S. P College Srinagar today which was organized by the University of Jammu in collaboration with Maghreb Petroleum Research Group, University College London, Directorate of School Education, J&K and S.P. College Srinagar, Professor Sahni, himself a internationally acclaimed defense analyst, said that Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was already working on the issues of global warming and climate but one needed to understand that there were human activities behind issues like global warming which have some consequences on the planetary ecosystems.
“Such issues will not be resolved by any single country unless all of us join hands together. In fact, the issues of concern should not be development versus environment or energy versus environment,” he said adding the policy dilemmas should never be about choosing good or bad but the two goods. The policy dilemmas before the policy makers, he added, should be to use both of these together so that energy and development can go together.
“What is extremely important is to plan a policy by which we are able to strike a right balance between the two and thus work towards making our planet a better place to live,” asserted Prof Sahni adding that it was extremely important to make our children aware and understand what are the challenges ahead in our planetary ecosystem.
He said it was not only important for the students and youth to understand the challenges and issues in our planetary ecosystems but it was equally important for them to spread out this message among their friends, students, brothers, sisters and the whole society. He also said that the
He said that it was equally important to understand the issues in terms of basic and earth science as we are located in High Himalayas and which is a very fragile area is and undertaking earth science is the most important thing for the students.
He also underscored the need to strength the partnerships with our sister universities and educational institutions. He said we needed to join hand with our sister universities in this endeavour.
Earlier, Dr Ali. Mohd Mir, Principal of S P College Srinagar addressed the august gathering which included over 200 school children and accompanying teachers from various schools of Kashmir valley and acclaimed scientists and researchers from all over the world who converged in Srinagar for the event. He said policy of sustainable development has to be followed to check global warming and climate changes.
This event would be followed by a three-day International workshop on “Energy Challenges in Jammu and Kashmir state: A case study for the Energy Research Institute” being organized jointly by University of Kashmir, University of Jammu and Maghreb Petroleum Research Group, University College London at University of Kashmir from May 20 to 22, 2009.
Several foreign specialists from
Dr. Bindra Thusu, MPRG, University College London, Visiting Professor, JU, while speaking at the occasion, till now over 1000 boys and girls have been sensitized in Jammu, Kargil, Leh, Jaislmer and Jodhpur where such Energy Efficiency Campaigns have been initiated for the students. He said today’s event which would spread awareness among over 200 students, would further spread the awareness in entire
Prof. G. M. Bhat, Principal Convenor, EEC, informed that UCL would soon go international in collaboration with
Mr. Franco Conticini, General Manager, Eni
Dr. Jonathan Craig, Vice-President, Regional Studies and Exploration Opportunities Selection, E&P Division, Eni S.p.A. Milan spoke to the children regarding petroleum geology which was followed by simple exercises for the students. Another practical session included a lecture by Dr Jonathan Craig on global warming followed by the more exercises for the students. He also informed the children that Eni is a major integrated energy company, committed to growth in the activities of finding, producing, transporting, transforming and marketing oil and gas. The Company has global operations in 70 countries and out 77,000 employees, a total of 1000 employees are in
Never before any such an initiative has been taken in
The focus of the workshop was to provide essential basic education in Geosciences to the school children of
The experts of the event were. R.L.Kashkari and Dr. B.K.Raina, both former directors of Geological Survey of India, Dr. B.L.Dhar, Forest Research Insitute, Dehradun.
As there is a limited awareness among the school children on such themes, the most important component of the lecture series and exercises in this workshop for valley children was to make them aware about the critical global issues of the current energy crisis, depleting fossil fuel resources, alternative energy resources, energy efficiency and global warming.
The students participated in the workshop enthusiastically. They also made posters on the theme of global warming and climate change.
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