GREEN Olympiad Felicitation Ceremony 2024 – 25
India has the largest youth population in the world, and it is also predicted that it will have the highest share in global working age population between 2020 and 2030. Most of the current students will add up to the existing ‘young’ population and will be the key decision-makers in all walks of life. Hence it is of utmost importance that their behaviors are shaped in a manner that they promote sustainable choices in decision making. TERI believes that the time to influence their attitudes is when they are in their learning phase and can understand, experiment and act on concepts of sustainable choices.
Government of India is initiating new and novel schemes like Mission LiFE to influence behavioral change amongst the citizens and education-based reforms like National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and National Curriculum Framework 2023 are aiding the nuances of environmental education. TERI remains ahead of time when it comes to design and implementation of sustainability solutions. In 1999, the Environment Education and Awareness Division at TERI envisioned GREEN Olympiad (GO), as a leading school-based initiative of TERI. The goal is to test the environmental quotient of students thereby giving them avenues to prepare themselves ready for careers of the future. The importance of Olympiads is articulated in NEP 2020 and the program draws its linkages to SDG 4.7 on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). The programme has incorporated several stages of development to match the aspirations of the academic community. Reaching out to nearly 2000 schools annually in India and abroad, this Olympiad is designed for students of Std. 4–12.
Felicitation Ceremony
As part of the programme, a Felicitation Ceremony of GREEN Olympiad 2024-25 is held on the auspicious occasion of Earth Day; April 22, 2025 at the India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi. This year’s theme is- Our Power, Our Planet, and as we move into 26th edition of GREEN Olympiad, we aim to imbibe in students a transformative reality to conserve, create and control conspicuous energy consumption and to harness renewable energy sources to build a healthy, sustainable, equitable and prosperous planet. Students will be awarded in various categories of their performance at Global, National and State level. The event will be interspersed with a skit competition, talk sessions by experts in the field and performances by students.
GREEN Olympiad 2024 has received outreach support and endorsements from Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India; Ministry of Education, Government of India; Central Board of Secondary Education; Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan; Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti; Directorate of Secondary Education, Government of Assam; Directorate of School Education, Government of Haryana; Department of State Educational Research and Training, Government of Karnataka; Directorate of School Education, Government of Tamil Nadu; Assam Science Technology and Environment Council; State Council of Educational Research and Training, Goa; Gujarat Council on Science & Technology; Puducherry Council for Science & Technology; and Punjab State Council for Science & Technology.
Watch the proceedings here: https://youtu.be/czhAA8kQ448