India’s school rooms are but to combine climate education into their curriculum in a way that may lead to mitigation. Empirical analysis finds that whereas college students reveal consciousness of climate points, this hardly ever interprets into sustained behaviour change. | Photo: iStock/ Getty Images
When college students at Cambridge School in Bengaluru have been requested to map their faculty’s carbon footprint, one thing surprising occurred. Rather than treating it as an train to be submitted and forgotten, they started tracing emissions that they by no means seen earlier than – the lights that have been by no means switched off, unattended techniques nonetheless flashing and lastly, the full power their establishment consumed. What they discovered modified how they behaved. Vertical gardens went up throughout the campus. Green corners appeared in each classroom and a school-wide ‘Go Green Campus Drive’ adopted.
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Published – April 24, 2026 09:00 am IST
