GREEN DISCUSSION:Status of Tiger Monitoring in Nepal;Comparing results of the Past(2008/09&2013/14)

38461394_2081645442101501_1165160658161893376_nOn 3rd August, 2018 Nepalese Youth for Climate Action-NYCA organized Green Discussion on ENPHO Hall Tapagaun. Respected Jhamak B.Karki, PhD presented on the Topic “Status of Tiger Monitoring in Nepal; Comparing results of the Past (2008/09 &2013/14).” Around 85 Participants from different institutional background was present in the Discussion and the program was interactive. He stated that Tiger can be identified by body marks Face marks, Tail marks. He mentioned about Line transact and its practical use in Nepal and also about camera trapping which have been used in recent tiger monitoring. He concluded that camera trapping is more reliable than pellet counting method.  Participants raised the Question about Tiger monitoring. Camera trapping is not use in case of Rhino because Each Tiger have different footprint to be identified but Rhino cannot be distinguish. Male and female tiger can distinguish on the basis of Pug mark.

Green Discussion:”Urban Mobility:Is Road Expansion a Sustainable Solution?”

On 20th July 2018 Nepalese YIMG_20180720_154519outh for Climate Action-NYCA organized Green Discussion on the Topic “Urban Mobility:Is Road Expansion a Sustainable Solution?” .It was Presented by Resources person Ms. Rashmi Maharjan (Program Officer-Clean Energy Nepal) in presence of participants from different institution.She highlighted that Sustainable urbanization most be people centric rather than vehicle centric. She also stated that Road expansions are not the sustainable solution. Though road are expanded in some areas in Kathmandu but the congestion and road accidents are still same incase in the phase of increasing.

She requested all the participants to use Eco friendly transportation so that emission contribution to the environment will be less and directly can help in reducing Green House Gas(GHG’S).

School Awareness Program

On 15th July 2018 Nepal37117190_10155728725147934_8946276281813565440_oese Youth for Climate Action Organized School Awareness Program in Sahid Sukra School, Bagbazar under leadership of XV team.Program focused mainly on Climate Change. School Administrative and School Student were positive towards the program

PLANTATION

Plantation is one of the way to combat the climate change and to protect our earth from increasing climate change and its effect.Nepalese youth for climate Action organized Plantation campaign as the theme # र मेरो बिरूवा   from 20th march 2018 .Participants    pictur31081686_10155537640702934_7728846511609479168_ne of their newly planted plant along with them. The person who could 31190008_10155537640197934_2991423375676538880_nsend the picture with the same plant after 1 year would be awarded.As the closing of this campaign we have done plantation on the occasion of Earth Day April 22nd ,2018 at   Rehabilitation Center gokarneswor.

म र मेरो बिरुवा

Wanna be part of plantation????29496585_10155455774022934_5542916738737242112_n

म र मेरो बिरुवा is a one month long campaign with the concept key to greener earth is in your hands.
Follow these steps-
1. Plant a tree/sapling
2. Send a picture of you planting a tree/sapling to nyca.np@gmail.com with short caption
3. Share the photo uploaded in our page
4. Pass the challenge of plantation to two or more of your friend circle
5. Again, after one year you have to share the picture of your plant to us.
You will be appreciated with certain award
This campaign will last untill 22nd April Earth Day with plantation program and was started from 20th march 2018.

We have been receiving  positive responses from the participants with lot of plantation picture till date .This campaign aims to increase My(your ) responsibility towards better earth.

HIKING TO NAGI GUMBA

On 10th march 2018 NYC29062784_10155428232457934_998654465542193152_nA have Organized  hiking series with the slogan “I love my lungs” considering the Heath,Clean air and interaction,sharing within the youth.It was the way of sight seeing the beautiful nature .This time we are hiking to Nagi gumba,this walk was aim to  provide  peacefulness from the modernized and urbanized zone.About 35 energetic youth participated in this hiking .They appreciated the initiation and requested for next hiking sooner.

GREEN DISCUSSION:”SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AND ITS CONDITION IN NEPAL”

On 25th January 2018 Nepalese youth for Climate Action together with Clean Energy Nepal-CEN organized Green Discussion program on the topic “Solid Waste Management and Its Conditi27332123_10155310339047934_332466491361696905_non in Nepal.” in presence of Mr Bhusan Tuladhar-Regional Technical Advisor South Asia-UN-HABITAT as a Resource person among 45 enthusiastic youth from different institutional Background.

“REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE.”

Climate Change is a global concern among today’s generation with its increasing extremities and unpredictable consequences. Countries like Nepal who are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change impact are facing several threats on livelihood and economy. Empowering and educating youths make them aware on its consequences towards resilience IMG_3841future with adequate knowledge on adaptation and mitigation to the climate change impacts was deemed necessary. In this regard, Nepalese Youth for Climate Action (NYCA) together with Clean Energy Nepal (CEN) organized two days Regional Conference on Climate Change.  The main objective of the conference was to engage and empower youths and built strong networks to act against climate change. The conference was jointly supported by Southern Voices on Adaptation (SVA), Tulsipur Sub-Metropolitan City and Nepal Public Awakening Forum, Rukum from 16th to 17th January, 2018 in Tulsipur, Dang.

Around 60 youths from Mid-western region benefited from the conference. Mr. Ghanashyam Pandey, Mayor of Tulsipur Sub-metropolitan City, said that we have to change our behavioral practice first to reduce the effect of climate change.“Cycling, using electric vehicles and walking for shorter distances could be the best ways to minimize the air pollution and traffic as well”, he added.

Mrs. Maya Acharya, Deputy Mayor of Tulsipur Sub-metropolitan City shared her delight to be a part of the conference and requested youths to act responsibly to march towards the “Clean Tulsipur Green Tulsipur” initiated by the sub-metropolitan. ”Every sector needs to progress equally for a better future and for this youth can to play key role”, she stressed.

Mr. Jhakendra Kharel, Information Officer at the sub-metropolitan discussed about the dynamism of youth and their roles to combat climate change. “Inspiration, aspiration, perspiration, celebration and satisfaction are the key factors for any work to be completed successfully”, he said while motivating the youths.

Mr. Shree Man Neupane, Executive Director of Human Welfare and Environment Center  (HWEPC) was among the speakers had presented ideas on Climate Change Adaptation from the local perspective..

Mr. Rajan Thapa and Mr. Damodar Dhital from CEN facilitated the conference. Mr. Thapa presented about the basic skills and ingredients required for designing and developing an effective campaign. Facilitating the group work, he guided several campaigns with constructive feedbacks and means for successfully implementing the campaign. Besides, he also briefly outlined the concepts of Climate Change Policy, National Adaptation Program of Action (NAPA), Local Adaptation Plan of Action (LAPA) while discussing about initiatives from the government in response to climate change impacts.  Mr. Dhital during the technical session presented on “Understanding the Basics of Climate Change Science”. He discussed about the climate change science, its causes and effects and some of the responses to climate change. He further facilitated the group work on Campaign Designing.

OUTCOME OF COP23″POST COP”

On December 11, 2017 Nepalese Youth for climate Action-NYCA together with Clean Energy Nepal-CEN organized post cop in presence of the panelist Dr.Ram Prasad Lamsal (Joint secretary Ministry of population and Environment-MOPE), Manjeet Dhakal (Advisor to LDC chair at UNFCCC), Ugan Manandhar (Deputy IMG_1536director, WWF), Ganesh shah-Former ministry of Environment and Dr.Maheswar Rupakheti (Institute for advanced sustainability studies, Germany) and the youth participants from different institution. The main objective of the program was to address the outcome of the cop23 that was held in Bonn, Germany from Nov 6-17.

“WORLD CLIMATE SIMULATION”

On 16th November, 2017 “World Climate Stimulation: A Role play in Negotiation” was organized by Nepalese Youth for Climate Action (NYCA) and supported by Plan International Nepal. Around 40 participants were present at the program from different educational background. They were given opportunity to build climate change awareness and enable participants to experience some of the dynamics that emerge in the UN climate negotiations. All the participants were divided into 6 groups and assigned to be a delegate representing various countries such as China, India, United States of America, Developing countries etc. Brief description of the program was given and upcoming COP 23 information was shared in presence of Executive secretary of UNFCCC Patricia Espinosa .The main target of the program was to let participants involve into the negotiation process and finalize an agenda at23561676_10155132424477934_1020700332457529798_n the end. The negotiation exercise was divided into 3 rounds to meet the 2 degree Celsius agenda.

With the aid of C-ROADS the data came from each of the regions were entered into the software and analyzed through the graph whether we were able to meet the agenda. With the strong stand on23658405_10155132425722934_2106650434196385439_nthe development by China and US we were not able to reach the agenda but we could reach up to 2.42degree at the end. To show the disastrous outcome at the end we covered the developing nations with piece of cloth to show that developing country will soon be drowning if same trend of GHGs emission exists. Sadly, the participants were so involved with the role play they couldn’t come up with the agenda and also there was limitation of time. Overall feedbacks from participants were good. They thoroughly enjoyed being part of role play negotiation process.