Initiatives and Events
Campaign Against Draft Environment Impact Assessment Notification 2020 and Let Me Breathe Feature
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Filed a Representation against the Draft EIA Notification 2020 before the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change. The representation can be found here.
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Filed representations to the state governments of Kerala, Telangana, Goa, West Bengal, Assam, Gujarat, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu, requesting them to translate the Draft in the official language(s) of their state. A sample of the letter can be found here
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Ran social media campaigns against the Draft that reached thousands of people. Details can be found on our social media handles here and here.
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TFS was featured by Let Me Breathe India in August 2020 for its efforts against the Draft EIA Notification. The feature can be found here.
Co-Hosted a Panel Discussion on ‘COP: Scope, Workings, and Challenges’ in Collaboration with GPODS Fellowship
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The Final Stand hosted a webinar in partnership with the Global Policy, Diplomacy, and Sustainability (GPODS), a program for public policy practitioners, business professionals, energy and climate change experts, entrepreneurs, academicians, scholars, and strategic analysts to act as a launchpad for their careers. The webinar titled, 'COP: Scope, Workings and Challenges' was held on the 8th of January 2022 and gave our listeners a multi-perspective take on the happenings at the COP and what we as ordinary citizens can reasonably expect from the negotiations. Our esteemed panellists, Prof. Eeshan Chaturvedi (Founder-Director, EnviPol), Mr. Vivek Saxena (Indian Forest Services officer | MD, Haryana Forest Development Corporation, Panchkula) , Ms. Jasmine Mehta (SG Corporate Sales - EMEA, MSCI & Chair, Indian Women in International Relation) and Ms. Gayatri Raghwa (Education Consultant, UNEP India Office) came from four distinct backgrounds and thus provided very unique perspectives on the role of the COP in climate-change mitigation. The session was moderated by Shalini Prem (President of The Final Stand) and Srishti (Public Diplomacy and Outreach Manager- GPODS) widely appreciated by our audience of nearly a hundred listeners.
ProjectSneh and Plastic Erase Collaboration - ‘Where’s Your Drive?’ Campaign [2021]
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The Final Stand collaborated with ProjectSneh and Plastic Erase to conduct the ‘Where’s Your Drive?’ Campaign. The Campaign was aimed at encouraging and appreciating the work undertaken by various local and grass-root organisations/individuals who conduct clean up drives and raise awareness about how important it is to avoid littering. The participants included,
The Campaign video can be found here.
Young Climate Activist Session [2020].
TFS conducted a session of Climate/Sustainability 'Never Have I Ever' with the following Young Climate Activists.
Aditya Dubey is a student environmentalist, who has been running a sustained campaign against Air Pollution and Plastic Use. He is also the founder of the Plant a million trees initiative.
Asheer Kandhari is a core member and organiser for Friday’s For Future india. She was also the Indian delegation for the C40 Mayors Summit in Copenhagen. She also started a ‘No single use plastic’ campaign in collaboration with the UN
Anjali Dalmia is the Co-Founder of Yugma Network, The Project Amara, and PLANT: People's Living Archive of Native Trees. She is also a member of SAPACC Maharashtra, a UN Millennium Fellow 2020, and an undergraduate student & Environment Minister at Ashoka University. She is extremely passionate about contextualising the climate discourse to South Asia and bringing youth into policymaking.
The session can be found here.
