[Reader-list] Joint delegation of Indian Youth Climate Network & Alliance of Indian Waste pickers for COP21, Paris

Wed Oct 14 06:29:49 CDT 2015

*Joint delegation of Indian Youth Climate Network & Alliance of Indian
Waste pickers for COP21, Paris <http://iycn.in/iycn-updates-cop-21-paris/>*

The *Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN)* is a network uniting Indian youth
and youth oriented organisations who are concerned about climate change &
environment issues. IYCN works to generate awareness about and establish
consensus on what role India should play in the global debate of climate
change, and how it should address its domestic issues. . IYCN has active
members in 18 states of the country and has partner networks/ organisations
in other states of India.

*Alliance of Indian wastepickers (AIW)* is a national coalition of
organizations working with wastepickers and other informal waste workers.
The alliance was created to have coordinated efforts to ensure recognition
of waste pickers as ‘Green Economy Pioneers/Green Entrepreneurs’ and their
inclusion in various national and international frameworks.  Twenty six
membership based organizations are a part of it.

*Members of the Joint Delegation*
[image: Ankan De] <http://iycn.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Ankan-De.jpg>

Ankan De

*Ankan De: *Ankan De is an Environmental Engineer and hydrologist presently
working with the Government of Meghalaya (India) in the Water and Climate
Change Sector. He is looking after the Centre for Water Resources under the
State’s flagship Integrated Development program. He is also the
co-ordinator for the Indian Youth Climate Network in the North-East region
of India. His work is interdisciplinary and covers various
inter-disciplinary topics such as Hydrology, Hydrogeology, Climate Change,
Computer Programming, Modelling, Fluvial Geomorphology, Geographic
Information Systems, Waste Management, Data Management and Knowledge
Management.  In the past, he has worked with GIZ in their Climate Change
Adaption- North East Region (India) programme, the Meghalaya Basin
Development Authority and World Bank’s Integrated Coastal Zone Management
programme with the State Government of West Bengal, covering the Sunderbans
area (West Bengal, India). He is from Calcutta, where he attended La
Martinere for Boys. He has a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering
from Clemson University, USA and a Masters degree in Environmental
Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, USA. He is a SustainUS alum, was
Youth Delegate at CSD-19 (New York) and had also participated in some of
the Open Working Groups (post Rio+20). He is an avid photographer and a
poet.

[image: Ashabai] <http://iycn.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Ashabai.jpg>

Ashabai Doke

*Ashabai Doke: *Ashabai Doke is a waste manager and green entrepreneur from
Aurangabad, India. She is affiliated to Civic Response Team (CRT^) – an
organization based in the same city.   As a member of CRT^, Asha manages
two recyclable waste shops, and handles over 8 tonnes of material per
month. Her efforts contribute to better earnings of over 30 sanitation
workers, and more stable livelihoods for three other waste-picker women who
are now freed of their bonded labour contracts. She is also the member of
Kagad Kach Patra Kashtkari Sanghthana (KKPKS), a trade union, and
spokesperson for other persons like her, who made a living from collecting
waste materials from dumps.

And so, as she travels far and wide, within the country spreading hope to
others who dream of earning an honest living; and abroad, where she will
now speak at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
-UNFCCC CoP 21 in Paris, to authorities, colleagues, well-wishers and
fellow human beings from far and wide on the struggle of one woman to
overcome poverty, and to work together for sustainable & equitable Solid
Waste Management solutions and a better, cleaner, more just world for
all. CRT^ and KKPKS are both coalition member of Alliance of Indian
Wastepickers.

[image: Kabir Arora] <http://iycn.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Kabir.jpg>

Kabir Arora

*Kabir Arora: *Kabir is a passionate geographer. Having lived in eight
different cities of India, he is trying to make sense of prevailing
urbanity. To earn his livelihood, Kabir coordinates Alliance of Indian
Wastepickers– an informal network of organizations, cooperatives, and
companies working on waste management with the help of wastepickers and is
currently based in Bangalore. Kabir graduated with B.A. (Hons.) in
Geography from Jamia Millia Islamia (National Muslim University), New
Delhi.  Post his graduation; he had a brief stint in primary education as a
part of Gandhi Fellow profile. He worked in both rural – Jhunjhunu/ Churu
and Udaipur and urban – Mumbai government schools as a primary teacher and
assistant to Headmasters. During the fellowship, he also enrolled himself
for an online course- Post Graduate Diploma in Urban Environment Management
& Environment Law, offered by WWF-India & National Law University, Delhi.
Continuing his interest in studying cities he was a learner in Indian
Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore as a part of their course
Programme for Working Professionals in Urban Development (PWP-UD). In
addition to his interest in informal economy, Kabir follows the discourse
on sustainability quite thoroughly and is a Board Member of Indian Youth
Climate Network (IYCN) – torchbearer of nascent climate movement in South
Asia. He participated in Conference of Parties (COP) – 11 (Hyderabad), 12
(Pyeong Chang) of ‘Convention on Biological Diversity’, and COP 20 (Lima)
of ‘United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change-UNFCCC’. He
writes regularly on the issues of waste management and climate change on
www.wastenarratives.com andwww.whatswiththeclimate.wordpress.com
 respectively.

[image: Mansoor]
<http://iycn.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Mansoor-Picture.jpg>

Mansoor

*Mansoor*: Mansoor operates the Dry Waste Collection Centre (recyclables
and inorganic waste aggregation and sorting unit) in ward 168 of Jayanagar
in Bangalore. He with his team sorts more than a ton of collected waste
every day and send it for recycling, thus saving carbon which would have
been otherwise be emitted by waste mismanagement, and production from
virgin material. Mansoor does not stop at sorting of waste. ‘He also aims
to make a scrap dealers’ cooperative which will play a role in creating a
fair price marketplace, provide access to transparent data and geo-tag
scrap dealers as the first point of sale for household waste.[1]
<http://iycn.in/iycn-updates-cop-21-paris/#_ftn1>’ He wants the countries
to pursue the agenda of recycling in their climate action commitments, as
opposed to incineration of waste –‘waste to energy’(threat to his and many
other green entrepreneurs’ livelihood)  which is currently being proposed
as climate solution by many national governments. He is associated with
Hasiru Dala, a Bangalore- India, based wastepickers and informal waste
workers membership organization. Hasiru Dala is a coalition member of
Alliance of Indian Wastepickers.

[1] <http://iycn.in/iycn-updates-cop-21-paris/#_ftnref1> Courtesy: The
Better India Website

[image: N.S.Prasad]
<http://iycn.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/N.S.Prasad.jpg>

N.S. Prasad

*N.S. Prasad: *Prasad is board member, regional coordinator and program
manager for IYCN projects at Hyderabad chapter (2009-Till date). To earn
his livelihood Prasad engages in landscape (softscape) designing. He
studied Horticulture sciences from Acharya N. G. Ranga Agriculture
University.  He was selected for IVLP (International Visitors Program) one
of the most prestigious programmes offered by Government of The United
States of America on Climate Change and Clean Energy. He was also involved
and played an important role in developing compressive carbon foot print
calculator as per Indian standards with CERENA Foundation, another non
profit organization in Hyderabad.

[image: Supriya Singh]
<http://iycn.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Supriya.jpg>

Supriya Singh

*Supriya Singh: *Supriya is a professional working in the field of
human-environment interaction in the non-profit sector in India. Over the
last 13 years she has worked extensively on resource management and
conflicts (mainly land and water); national and local policy initiatives
affecting resource use and governance; community resource management and
agricultural systems. Increasingly her work is to integrate these issues
with the climate change debate and scenario in India. Currently her work
focus is towards finding solutions to questions like “How can we harness
the potential of villages/institutions/cities as complex adaptive systems
for common good under a climate change scenario? And what institutions
might help catalyze meaningful change towards resilient community
structures?” She is the Board Member of Indian Youth Climate Network and
holds the position of President. Currently she is pursuing her PhD in
‘Political Ecology’ with focus on political ecology of water in the NCR.

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