Don Bosco Student Was Climate Ambassador to COP29
(ANS - Baku, Azerbaijan – November 29, 2024) – A 14-year-old Climate Champion, Swanik Choudhury, of class IX and his mother Climate Chaperon Swati Choudhury, a class V teacher, both of Don Bosco School Park Circus Kolkata (Calcutta), attended the COP29 meeting held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
“Swanik has taken proactive steps toward environmental
conservation, including setting up compost pits, implementing rainwater
harvesting, maintaining a kitchen garden, and planting saplings,” said his principal,
Fr. V.C. George.
Swanik was invited to speak on a discussion panel regarding
the contribution of different sectors to the growing environmental problems,
and shared his role in Don Bosco’s climate committee, the Green Movement. “I
spoke about our school’s extensive measures to combat climate change, from
planting trees and donating clothes to literacy programs and spreading the
motto ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,’” he explained. “Meeting campaigners and
activists from around the world reinforced my belief in the power of unity,” he
added. During the event Swanik was also declared a Climate Ambassador by the
United Nations Agency for Development and Peace.
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