Empowering the Future: The Role of Environmental Education in Contending Climate Change and Encouraging Carbon Neutrality in India

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Year : 2025 | Volume :16 | Issue : 01 | Page : –
    By

    Ms. Senali Trivedi,

  • Dr. Suja Nayar,

  1. Research Scholar, Department of Doctoral Research and Innovation, GLS University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
  2. Assistant Professor, Department of Law, GLS University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Abstract

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A major challenge to human advancement, climate change necessitates political consensus and international cooperation to overcome its wide-ranging effects. One of the most important strategies for overcoming this obstacle, raising awareness, and promoting the shift to sustainable socioeconomic systems is environmental education. This Paper examines how well a climate change awareness that focuses on the connections between waste production, consumption patterns, and climate change works for students in India’s education system. Through examining these connections, the paper aims to foster eco-friendly habits and raise awareness of the global movement toward pollution avoidance and green consumption. The overarching goal of attaining “carbon neutrality,” which emphasizes how education can affect both individual and group actions to lower carbon emissions, must be in line with environmental education. In the framework of a low-carbon economy, the study investigates how environmental education might improve environmental quality. The objective of the paper is to develop a generation of changemakers by giving information for adopting sustainable habits. The findings highlight the importance of developing environmental education programs to lessen the impact of climate change and highlight the obstacles and problems of teaching responsible consumption. This essay focuses on examining the affiliation between eco-friendly quality and eco-friendly education in the framework of a low-carbon economy.

Keywords: Climate Change, Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Carbon Neutrality, Green Consumption, Low-Carbon Economy

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Ms. Senali Trivedi, Dr. Suja Nayar. Empowering the Future: The Role of Environmental Education in Contending Climate Change and Encouraging Carbon Neutrality in India. Journal of Alternate Energy Sources & Technologies. 2025; 16(01):-.
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