1. Indian Youth Climate Network
Climate Solutions Road Tour
While young people are aware of the importance of climate change, our generation has not mobilized
into large scale actions. The Indian Youth Climate Network has set out to create, communicate and
celebrate the solutions to climate change through our Climate Solutions Road Tour, a mission to reach
millions of young people across the country to spread the message that climate change is our
generation’s call to action to create a new vision for the future!
We will be travelling across the nation in solar powered vehicles to spread our key message that climate
solutions are ready to be adopted today and that they can be, with the commitment of individuals and
visionaries. India Climate Solutions can and will be an example to the world, and young people need to
recognize their power to transform the future into what we want to see. The greatest climate solution is
our human capacity to take action.
Project:
- 10 members of the Indian Youth Climate Network and a solar powered band traveling more than
3500 kilometers in solar plug-in electric cars and a solar biofuel bus to highlight climate solutions
- Visiting more than 15 cities including Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai,
Ahmedabad, Udaipur, Jaipur and Delhi from January 1 to February 5
- Demonstrating climate solutions in clean tech showcases, including at the IIT Bombay TechFest
with more than 50,000 top engineers across the nation
- Using art, dance and music to communicate the message in new ways to young people
- Accompanied by solar powered band and hand-cranked radios to play music in all areas
- Creating more than 50 videos of India’s top climate solutions to be screened online, at schools,
and on national and international television networks
- Visiting and documenting communities that are taking action and individuals leading the way
- Conducting leadership trainings on 20 college campuses across the nation with more than 200
schools participating and more than 10,000 students directly impacted
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Climate Solutions Road Tour
Aims & Impacts:
- Showcase our partners’ successes in developing and implementing climate solutions
- Create a generation of Indian climate leaders who understand opportunities for clean
development by reaching 1,000,000 individuals directly to highlight the potential of renewables
- Spread awareness about opportunities for climate action including green jobs, NGOs, and the
potential for entrepreneurship through more than 50 leadership trainings and presentations
- Create 500 green campuses across India through climate leadership trainings on college
campuses to get both students and administrations working towards carbon neutral higher
education
- Create 50+ videos of India’s climate solutions to share with the nation and the world
- Gather and share thousands of youth voices on climate change on radio, on tv and online
Partners and Supporters:
- Minister Muttemwar, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
- Companies including Moser Baer, Infosys, Osram, Reva, and Kotak Urja
- Clean technology developers including D*light Technologies, Freeplay, and Valence Energy
- Entrepreneur-based organizations including The Indus Entrepreneurs, the National Entrepreneur
Network, New Ventures India, and Ashoka Foundation’s Youth Ventures.
- NGOs including the World Futures Council, Navdanya Foundation, Environmental Defense,
WorldWatch, Sahaas, NatureFirst, LEAD India, The Climate Project: India, Live Earth Foundation,
and Global Citizens for Sustainable Development
- Universities including SRM University, Chennai; University of Mumbai; Pune University; Delhi
University; IIT Bombay; IIT Madras; IIT Delhi; Hyderabad University, IIM Bangalore; IIM
Ahmedabad; Center for Environmental Planning and Transportation
- United States State Department
- Live Earth Concert Series
Organization:
- Indian Youth Climate Network is a registered all India National Trust that provides a platform for a
youth voice on climate change in national and international policy forums
- IYCN is sending a delegation of students and young professionals to the United Nations Climate
Negotiations, including two delegates as a part of the official Indian delegation
- IYCN runs climate leadership training programs across the country and is working to develop a
generation of climate leaders who have a new vision for the future and the power to create it
- Is a member of the global Climate Action Network as the youth branch in India
- Has organized nationwide and international summits for youth leaders on climate change
including the India Youth Summit on Climate Change at Infosys campus in Hyderabad
- Has partnered with Youth Parliament, UNDP, UNEP, TERI, CSE, LEAD India, The Climate
Project, Center for Social Markets, NDTV and dozens of smaller NGOs across India
University Climate Leadership Trainings
Friday, January 2, Chennai: Leadership Training at IIT Madras
Saturday, Jan 3: Training at Vellore Institute of Technology
Monday, Jan 5: Climate leadership training at IIM, Bangalore
Tuesday, Jan 6: Climate leadership training at University of Bangalore, St Stephen’s
Friday Jan 9: Leadership Training at University of Hyderabad
Friday, Jan 16: Pune University Climate Leadership Training session;
Tuesday, Jan 20: Mumbai University leadership training
Thursday, Jan 22: St. Xavier’s in North Goa at Mapusa campus
Saturday, Jan 24: Tech Fest at IIT Mumbai leadership training – 50 colleges
Wed, Jan 28: Ahmedabad Climate Leadership Training at CEPT/IIM
Saturday, Jan 31: UDAIPUR: Climate Leadership Training with local NGOs
Tuesday, Feb 3: JAIPUR Birla Institute of Science
Thursday, Feb 5: DELHI Delhi University
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3. Indian Youth Climate Network
Climate Solutions Road Tour
Musical Performances:
January 2, Chennai
January 3 or 4, Bangalore
January 9, Hyderabad
Friday, Jan 17: Mumbai
Friday, Jan 23: Goa
Feb 4: Delhi
Entrepreneur Workshops
Friday, January 2, Chennai: Afternoon dinner and workshop with The Indus Entrepreneurs, Chennai.
Monday January 5, Bangalore:“What Every Manager Should Know About Climate Change” Module with
All India Management Association at Cambridge School of Management
Monday, January 5, Bangalore: Evening “Climate Entrepreneurship” event with IIM Bangalore and The
Indus Entrepreneurs, Bangalore
Friday, Jan 9: Hyderabad: Visit ISB for an interactive Climate Solutions session with business students
and with entrepreneurs
Monday, Jan 20, Mumbai: Event with TIE Mumbai on entrepreneurship; IIT Bombay and Mumbai
University
Wednesday, Jan 28, Ahmedabad: Joint event with CEPT and IIM Ahmedabad on Clean Tech Incubation
and successful local entrepreneurs
Spiritual Groups:
Tuesday Jan 6, Bangalore: Art of Living Ashram Tree plantation
Wednesday, Jan 7: Visit Putthaparthi and the Shri Satya Sai Baba Ashram; presentation in the afternoon
at a public workshop and following morning at Puttaparthi university
Saturday, Jan 16: Pune, Sadhu Vaswani Mission
Eminent Speakers
January 3, Chennai: Launch of Road Tour in Chennai featuring VC of SRM University, Minister of
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), potentially featuring CM of Tamil Nadu, head of MNRE
TN Nodal agency, Dr. RK Pachauri
January 4 and 5, Bangalore
9am: Reva rally beginning and ending at Eco-Fest in Cubbon Park
­ Nandan Nilekani, Mr. Narayan Murty and/or Rohan Parikh, head of sustainability at Infosys
January 10: Hyderabad, Hussain Sagar eco-fest with a running rally, key speakers, students presenting
their paintings/posters
- Amala Akinani
January 17: Mumbai, Mumbai University Leadership Panel
­ Dr Sawant, Pro Vice Chancellor Mumbai University
­ Bittu Sehgal
­ Dr. Asulekar IIT (HOD) tentative
­ Mr. Swaminathan tentative
­ Jamshed Godrej tentative
­ Mr Patil, Municipal Commissioner tentative
­ Subash Ghai. tentative
February 4: Delhi, Final Concluding event in Delhi – public concert and presentation at DPS
­ RK Pachauri
­ Deepak Puri, tbc
­ Nitin Desai, tbc
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Climate Solutions Road Tour
­ US Ambassador, tbc
Children’s Events
Sunday, January 4, Bangalore: “Rainseed Festival” making seed balls for planting and solar performance
with organic food and wine at T-ZED Green Housing development with EcoBCIL
Monday January 5, Bangalore: Multi-school eco-fest at Aditi
Friday, Jan 9: Hyderabad: The Indus School Climate Day Event: Climate Poster presentations,
speeches; dance performance at Indus School for schoolchildren
Thursday, Jan 15: Pune: Day long inter-school eco-event, poster competitions, international dialogue,
climate presentations by the Pune University Climate Communicators and our Road Trip Team
Sunday, Jan 18, Mumbai: Kids for Tigers event
Thursday Jan 22: Goa: Climate training with youth at Kala Academy in Panjim
Wed Jan 28: Ahmedabad: Children’s public workshop
Quotes on Indian Youth Climate Network:
All of the following are quotes from our speakers at Indian Youth Summit on Climate Change about IYCN
and the need for youth action
Amala Akkineni, Film Actress and Founder of Blue Cross, Hyderabad
“I may not be a climate expert, but I am a concerned citizen. I love my planet; it is my only home.”
Narayana Murthy, Co-Founder and Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies Limited
“We have a population of 650 to 700 million people under the age of 35. If we can mobilize this force, we
will have enormous power for change to address climate change.”
Vandana Shiva, Founder of Navdanya
“It’s sometimes hard to be hopeful in such times, but Indian Youth Climate Network has been my
Prozac!”
For more information, please contact Caroline Howe at +91 9953424293 or caroline@iycn.in
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