(IN): Green gurus to fight global warming

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Green gurus to fight global warming*

 

Joydeep Ray

Tuesday, January 1, 2008 (Ahmedabad)

A hotter planet, courtesy global warming, changing global climatic patterns

and melting polar ice caps.

 

The result - worldwide alarm and renewed concern in the save environment

campaign.

 

Now, the good news.

 

Soon, the Centre for Environment Education or the CEE will set up India's

first university exclusively dedicated to environment protection studies in

Ahmedabad with help from US experts.

 

The CEE was set up in the 80s, as a small agency under the Ministry of

Environment to work for the protection of greenery.

 

In started short-term courses on environment education in 1994.

 

But at the recently concluded 4th international conference on environment

education hosted for the first time by the central government. It was

decided that the CEE that has a fairly big campus in Ahmedabad would be

upgraded to a university by the first half of next year.

 

''Now we in CEE planning in 2008 also to launch an international masters

level programme, which hopefully will serve some purpose as environ

education in India has not yet picked up. But we need more quality

programmes,'' said Kartikeya Sarabhai, CEE.

 

At the seminar, experts from 24 countries across the world discussed the

importance of environment education, a sector India lags behind.

 

Now, the Centre is in talks with the United States Department of Energy for

a strategic tie-up for further broadening the CEE's future courses, making

it attractive for aspirants.

 

''I am confident that there are number of established priorities we can work

together. Many organisations want to collaborate with us, so we will find

good ways to work together here in India,'' said Mark Ginsberg, Director,

United States Department of Energy.

 

As demand for qualified environment experts is on the rise in today's times

of global warming, even corporates have warmed up to the idea of sponsoring

the CEE's initiatives to operate a specialised university.

 

 

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