Students Call for Sustainable Action to Protect Environment on World Environment Day

Kolkata: Students from colleges and universities across West Bengal shared ideas and discussed their role in tackling climate change at a programme organised to mark World Environment Day. The event, themed “Inspired by Nature. For Climate. For Our Future,” was organised by UNICEF in Kolkata on Thursday to encourage youth-led climate action initiatives in the […]

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Skipper drives climate action on the ground with ‘Hariyali’ to restore mangroves and empower vulnerable families in Sundarbans

Kolkata : Skipper Limited (BSE: 538562 | NSE: SKIPPER), in association with Joygopalpur Gram Vikas Kendra (JGVK) has made a courageous move towards empowering Sundarbans with the help of a planned plantation and community-based green project ‘Hariyali’ in the Basanti Block 24 Parganas South. The Sundarbans—spread across winding creeks, dense mangrove forests, and scattered island […]

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UNICEF urges WB govt for child-friendly disaster shelters

Kolkata: Sundarbans is one of the most climate triggered disaster-prone areas of the world with nearly 1.2 million standing at the doorstep of disasters, UN says the disasters are likely to increase. To be set up in Sundarban’s Kumirmari island of Gosaba block, South 24 Parganas, one of the furthest and most climate vulnerable regions […]

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