COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis that has affected everyone. It has impacted our economy, lifestyle and activities along with 18,979,596 cases and death of 711,252 people globally due to its infection. Although, COVID-19 has impacted us heavily, it has also shown positive responses for environment. Emission of green houses gases have been reduced, less amount of industrial waste being produced and air, water sources are less polluted but the major issue of concern still remains on how we can make it sustainable as pollution will increase again after the pandemics ends. The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share. With the covid19 impacts, most of our activities have shifted online and activities are performed maintaining social distances in our daily life Activities of the people have been limited to working form home during this period but this doesn’t make us less responsible towards our environment. I have continued my advocacy for environment during this period of pandemic empowering and educating people on environment and I will be sharing you my activities related to environment during this period in this report.

 

Virtual Eco Workshop

Virtual Eco Workshop on the title "Connect to Climate: Creating Climate Leaders" was organized on July 29 in collboaration of Tunza EcoGeneration with Climate Educartion Nexus. The workshop was organized via Zoom. This initiative was led by me as EcoGeneration Regional Ambassador to Asia. The workshop was for youth climate change enthusiasts to learn further learn about climate change advocacy and improve their journey as climate leaders in their respective communities. Workshop included many invents to provide participants a knowledge to climate change to keep them interested and interactive during the workshop. The different sessions during the workshop were: IceBreaking Session, Introduction session, Eco Voice, Climate Quiz, Climate Action Session, Experience Sharing Session, My Pledge to Nature, Climate Facts and Question Answer Session. You can view the recording of the program at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onxBbTOF9ew&t=38s

 

Presentation to Eco Club on World Environment Day

On the occasion of world environment day 2020, I was invited to give presentation to the member of LTS eco club of Little Flower School, Narayanghat. The event took place virtually where I awared the children on the theme of the world environment day 2020 i.e. Biodiversity and motivated them on how they can involve in environmental activities during this pandemic and inbuilt eco hero inside them. You can view the recording of the program at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6fUpgqPnsI&feature=emb_title

 

YouthLead Social Issue Campaign on “COVID-19 and Environment”

I facilitated a webinar on Covid 19 and Environment by YouthLead on the topic "What Youth Can Learn About the Environment Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic" on 30th April. This awareness campaign was conducted between April 27^th to May 4^th with webinar, twitter chat, group discussion and posting of resources. We discussed on what we can learn about the pandemic and the environment, and highlight the need to recognize youth and local efforts in advocating for a safer environment post-Covid-19. In other to sustain the positive impact, however temporary, it is pertinent that organizations and youth are engaged in the process of leading, championing, and supporting policies, awareness, and other impact activities. I shared my knowledge and experience on championing youth engagement and participation in the environment through the cases of Nepal and tips on how young people can play an active role in ensuring a safer, cleaner, and healthier environment during and after the Covid-19 pandemic. You can view the recording of the program at: https://www.youtube.com/embed/FWIT4c7oLaw?autoplay=0&start=0&rel=0

 

 

Online Awareness Campaign

·       World Environment Day: We posted different aspects of the environment each day commencing from May 30 to world environment day to acknowledge the value of every small element of the environment operating together to form such a diverse domain through Youth Thinkers’ Society Lamjung.

·       Articles:  My article on " Climate Change and Pest Infestation on Agriculture" and “Locust Swarm: Is climate change responsible?” was published on Climateducate blog. You can also view this article on : http://climateducate.weebly.com/ceblog/pest-infestation-on-agriculture-and-climate-change and http://climateducate.weebly.com/ceblog/locust-swarm-is-climate-change-responsible Also, My review article on "A SWOT ANALYSIS OF AGRIBUSINESS ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN NEPAL" has been published in Food and Agribusiness Management Journal.

·       Biodiversity Ecafe: On the occasion of International Day for Biological Diversity and its theme for celebration from May 18^th to May 22nd designated by the United Nations, I organized an online awareness campaign  With the aim to promote Tunza EcoGeneration, aware people on diversity, I initiated an online campaign on "Biodiversity ECafe" where people could enjoy their Morning Home Quarantine coffee with our Biodiversity Facts, Knowledge and resources on every day’s theme.

·       Participation in Online Events: I participated on Youthled Act of Good sharing my role as youth to be responsible towards the nature during the pandemic.

·       Twitter Chat: I was invited as panelist on twitter chat. Southern Africa Youth Forum (SAYoF-SADC) on Tuesday 7 April 2020 hosted a *Global Youth Twitter Chat session* on theme: Coronavirus (COVID19) A Global Pandemic: The Role of Youth During this Global Disaster where the Youth from across the Globe discussed and share more on the COVID19 pandemic, its effects to the Youth, how Youth have continued to engage during the lockdowns, the role of the Youth during this disaster as well as experiences on how the Youth are utilizing their positive energy in their Countries to mitigate the spread of COVID19 among others.

·       Eco Dictionary Series: During Eco Dictionary Series new words along with its meaning werer posted to make people aware about the new words related to the environment. Four weeks with 28 episodes of eco dictionary was conducted.

·       Plant Heath Campaign: This is my recent campaign where will I be sharing a series of article related to "Awareness on Plant Health"

 

My Future Plan

1.    I aim to conduct eco workshop at various schools empowering, inspiring and motivating children to protect the environment. During this workshop, I will be working to build local eco heroes to save the planet.

2.    I will conduct the awareness campaign on “Pesticides and its impact”. This campaign will be more oriented towards the farmer Use of pest

3.    I will continue my advocacy for climate action and awareness on climate change.

4.    I will continue the campaign I have led like, “My Waste My Responsibility”, “Go for Green”, “Sustainable Environment Campaign”, “Waste Pocket” and “Gift a Tree this birthday”

 I believe that we all have hidden eco heroes inside us and my campaigns will focus on bring out those eco heroes to protect the environment with the small activities of planting a tree themselves to advocacy together to bring the change.