by Mayukh Goswami

Mangaldai   : In connection with the celebration of the World Environment Day, on Wednesday, a prominent nature organization of the State ‘Aranyak’ and local organisation ‘Pacific Unit’ jointly organised an orientation workshop on the burning topic “Climate Change ‘here at the Uttar Mangaldai High School. Speaking on the occasion as one of the resource persons Tapan Sarma, Vice Principal of North Gauhati College, Kamrup Rural explained in length about the effect of climate change, global warming on the nature and the possible threats to the world civilization in coming future. He said, ” We could see how the increase of earth’s temperature by nearly one degree Celsius over the last one hundred years has left many islands submerged under the sea and if the temperature is increased by two or three degrees more, then places like Assam would turn into a desert.” Speaker Sarma further stated if we fail to control the increase of Carbon Dioxide in our environment by afforestation, preserving the natural wetlands or by means of any technology, we can’t expect to our planet from the adverse effect of climate change. The workshop conducted by Jayanta Pathak, Manager, Environment Education and Capacity Building section of Aranyak also witnessed several other speakers including prominent environment writer Juri Baruah, subject matter specialist from KVK, Baksa Dr Debojit Deka, Project Manager, District Disaster Management Authority, Darrang Jagadish Bhattacharya and senior journalist Mayukh Goswami presenting discussions on various other relevant topics on climate change  viz adaptation and resilience building in context of gender, in context of livestocks and disaster and hazards, local context of climate change, definition and reason of climate change etc. The day long workshop supported by ASTEC earlier began with the introductory speech by Bidyut Deka of Pacific Unit. The workshop was participated by students, teachers, guardians, elected local Panchayat representatives, senior citizens  and NGO members among others.