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World Environment Day: EvK2CNR disseminates climate education in the schools of Nepal

18.06.2012

What does the word "climate" mean? What are climate change and global warming? How do these things affect our lives, animals, plants and mountains? These are simple, but important questions that school children from the Khumbu Valley in Nepal, will face in the occasion of World Environment Day established by the UN in 1972 during the Stockholm Conference on Environment, during which the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was established. This initiative conceived by the EvK2CNR committee is expected to promote the outreach activities of the scientific projects carried out at the Pyramid Laboratory in collaboration with schools of the Khumbu region, Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC), Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) in the framework of the SHARE projects and of the UNEP-ABC project. The Pyramid Laboratory is located in Khumbu valley of Nepal at an altitude of 5050 meters, in the Nepal Himalaya. Thanks to this initiative, children will learn that one of the most important site for the study of climate and environment is close to their house, in Khumbu. Children will then discover the range of research activities carried out at Pyramid and the quantity of data collected at NCO-P (Nepal Climate Observatory – Pyramid) in the frame of SHARE and ABC projects, including weather data useful for this type of studies.

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