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      • Roadmap for Circular Cluster in Ludhiana’s Apparel & Textile Sector
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        in the Asia Pacific Region
      • Accelerating the Transition of the Indian Textile Sector towards Circularity
      • Landscaping Study for Food Waste in the HoReCa and Retail Segments
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        with Special Focus on Increasing Export Competitiveness of MSMEs
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        of Green Claims
      • Analysis of Global Campaigns and their linkages
        with Mission LiFE and the Indian Ecomarks Scheme
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      • Sustainability Ambassador
      • WWF Industry & Policy Engagement
        on Deforestation Free Edible Oil in India
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Youth for Sustainable Palm Oil Fellowship

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Youth for Sustainable Palm Oil Fellowship

Palm Oil Scenario

Overview

Palm Oil is the most produced vegetable oil in the world in terms of production volumes. Malaysia and Indonesia are leading producers, together accounting for 86% of global production. Although oil palm is a more sustainable producer of vegetable oil than other oil crops, there is a serious concern that the growing demand of palm oil for food and biofuel could lead to rapid and ill-managed expansion of palm oil production – resulting in serious deforestation. Hence there is a global push to augment the trade and use of sustainable palm oil, especially for leading consumer countries like India and China.
Approximately 50% of common consumer products contain palm oil. In fact, around 70% of our cosmetics and household products including margarine and chocolate to donuts and cookies, and even many personal care items like lipstick, shampoo and soap contain some materials derived from palm oil. There is growing realization now that consumers, especially young millennial can play a leading role in strengthening the push towards sustainable palm oil by advocating and actively demanding use of sustainable palm oil in these products that they use on a daily basis. Youth power/pressure can influence/push FMCG companies in India to move towards sustainable palm oil use, the uptake of which remains rather limited in India.

About the Fellowship

The Centre for Responsible Business (CRB) with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has designed and conceptualized a Youth Fellowship for Sustainable Palm Oil (YfS). The objective of this programme rolled out in February 2020 is to offer one of its kind opportunities to youth (young professionals between 18 yearsto 25 years to take charge by engaging and shaping the sustainability/SDG agenda based on their own ideas and actions.

The certificate fellowship pursues to engage youth specifically on SDG 12 (responsible production and consumption) and SDG 13 (climate action). At the end of the fellowship, each of the candidates are expected to submit an idea/plan that they want to implement in the next one year. The idea/plan may be a business model or an initiative at anindividual/ community or an organizational level. The plan should incorporate ways in which the candidate aims to prevent deforestation and combat climate change through the uptake of sustainable palm oil in India.

Number of applicants applied for the felowship. After a rigorous process involving written application and interview, four candidates were shortlisted. Currently, the selected candidates are being mentored by sustainability practitioners on the above ideas/actions relating them specifically to SDG12 and SDG13.

For the purpose of mentoring, CRB and RSPO have identified four mentors from diverse backgrounds.
As a YfS Fellow, the selected candidates will interact with their mentors to shape and refine their ideas/actions, gain exposure on the subject, publish their ideas through blogs and participate in national and international events in 2020. The names of the shortlisted fellows along with the name of their mentor and topics are as follows:

Name Topic Mentor
Bhavya Arora To develop a training module around SDG 12 and 13 for high school students and promote use of sustainable palm oil Ms. Ambreen Khan, Manager-WWF Volunteers
Punyasloka Panda Integrate environment and sustainable development into the utilitarian mindset of an individual and a profit seeking company and work towards making eco -friendlybehaviour a norm Mr. Kamal Prakash Seth, Country Head – India, RSPO
Rashmi Subramanian Leverage technology through a mobile application for tracking usage and avoiding wastage of day - to – day resources Ms. Ruhie Kumar, Communications Consultant on Climate Change
Vagisha Anant Promote Sustainable Travel, where travel not only includes going out of your city or state but also includes stepping outside your house and adopting sustainable practices while commuting or travelling Ms. Bhavya Sharma, Programme Officer, CRB

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Kamal Prakash Seth

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Bhavya Arora

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Punyasloka Panda

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Rashmi Subramanian

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Vagisha Anant

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Kamal Prakash Seth

Kamal Prakash Seth is the India Representative for the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, a global sustainability standard. He is also the founder of Human Circle, co-creator of Young India Challenge #DoWhatYouLove & Youth for Sustainability and a‘Climate Reality Project’ mentor. Over the last decade, Kamal has been influencer and public speaker for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. He is passionate about empowering individuals and organizations for the global goals. His current focus is on building a thriving ecosystem of partners and policiesto accomplish SDGs 12 and 13: Responsible Consumption and Production and Climate Action.

He loves writing about these causes and his articles have been published by ‘The Economic Times’, ‘BW Businessworld’, ‘India Climate Dialogue’ and other leading media platforms.

In the last 15 years, he has led diverse organizations, initiatives and campaigns for young people to turn their passion into a career and contribute to the society in meaningful ways.Previously he was a member of the interview panel for Mindvalley’s ‘Awesomeness Fest’, a youth brand ambassador for Microsoft (Nokia) and Dainik Jagran’s Janhit Jagran initiative. He has also been an organizer for Startup Weekend Powered by Google for Entrepreneurs. Kamal is also a TEDx speaker and has delivered a talk on ‘Making the 21st century, a century of wisdom’.

In 2017, he was invited by the University of Chicago for a course on ‘Strategic Management for Not-for-Profit organizations’. During his college days, Kamal was the President of AIESEC Delhi IIT chapter. He later worked as a specialist recruiter and interviewed more than a thousand people for companies like Philips, Nestle and many startups. In 2018, he received an award of excellence for promoting sustainability in the palm oil industry. In 2019, he was invited to Brisbane, Australia for a training by Ex-US Vice President Al Gore and his Climate Reality Project team for a global leadership training for climate action.

Kamal has been to more than 20 countries so far and delivered sustainability, entrepreneurship & leadership development programs and events across India, South/SE Asia, Europe and US.

Ambreen Khan

Ambreen Khan has been working in the area of youth development and empowerment for close to nine years. Currently, she leads the Youth and Citizen Engagement Programme-People for Planet at WWF India.

She is a nature lover and spends most of her leisure time learning the art of identifying birds through their calls.

Ambreen admires working with youth for their contagious energy, fresh ideas and innovative approach to challenges.

Prior to joining WWF India, Ambreen had contributed to development of the first youth-led National Youth Forum on Substance Use Prevention and provided mentoring to youth from varied backgrounds.

Ambreen has an enriching academic background in Social and behavioral sciences- a Graduate in Physics, who pursued her instincts to study Criminology followed by Clinical Psychology. She holds a double Master’s degree. She is a certified Substance Use Prevention Counsellor and had spent initial years of her career providing Brief Intervention to DUI offenders. She has a good research experience with the cross sectional comparative study of personality profile and mental health among drug using young people being her favorite.

Bhavya Sharma

Bhavya Sharma has been working in the development sector for more than six years now. In her career so far, she has been part of projects looking at public private partnerships, climate change, renewable energy, biodiversity financing, agriculture, SDGs and Nutrition. Currently, Bhavya is working as a Programme Officer at the Centre for Responsible Business (CRB). At CRB she is part of projects focussing on multiple issues such as certified sustainable palm oil, identification of public-private collaborative approaches for effective and scalable models, to availability and access to good nutrition and youth engagement.

In her free time Bhavya loves to read, mostly fiction and travel, preferably to the mountains.

Bhavya holds a Master’s degree in Environment and Development from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology (Honors) from the University of Delhi.

Bhavya believes that the Youth as the next generation hold the key to shaping a “better world” through their actions. A small change in actions now will pay dividends later; and these changes could begin at an individual level.

Bhavya Arora

Bhavya Arora is a mental health professional, TEDx speaker, trainer and an internationally certified psychotherapist from the USA and Netherlands. Having worked with various organizations ranging from United Nations to Department of Psychiatry AIIMS, she holds a rich experience in field and clinical work. Currently working as a Training and Development Coordinator at AFS Intercultural Programs India, she is working towards building and implementing programs for volunteers, teachers, students and schools to develop global competence to build a just and peaceful world. She is also managing NSLI-Y Program in India by the U.S.

Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and works as a participant support for students in India and Abroad coming from 10+ countries. Her work has not just been confined to training, she is also a nature enthusiast and is found bird watching and on nature trails with students and experts often and has worked with Mr. Bittu Sahgal at the Sanctuary Nature Foundation for over 3 years managing operations for Kids For Tigers Campaign in Delhi for 45+ Schools.

Currently as a Yfs Fellow, Bhavya believes sustainability to be the hope for a future! To her SDGs are not an idea, concept or advisory, but a framework for living that must be adopted by all citizens of this planet. With her fellowship, she is building training content and engagement modules for high school students and educators that empower educational institutes to align themselves with SDG Agenda 2030 under the able guidance of Ms. Ambreen Khan, WWF India.

Punyasloka Panda

Punyasloka has majored in Economics and holds a minor in Entrepreneurship from the reputed Ashoka University. He is passionate about Youth in the field of Sustainable Development. In January, 2020, he took the charge to lead the Youth for Sustainability clubs in schools and colleges across India. With a strong inclination to practical learning, he believes that education can solve major issues of a nation. Currently he serves as the Lead Volunteer Coordinator for Youth for Sustainability and works full time in his start-up Blueyard.

Rashmi Subramanian

With a background in history, philosophy and culture, Rashmi has worked on multiple domains in the social sector. She is also the Founder of PAHELI EDUCATION, an education start-up that works on social studies strengthening.

In the YfS Fellowship, she is working on developing an app named Upayog that helps to embed sustainability and optimizing utilisation of existing resources. Through this app, people become conscious about their day to day consumption pattern.

It is her belief and goal to bring a traditional and humble touch in the modern way of living and thinking and sensitize people about UN SDG 12 and 13.

Vagisha Anant

Vagisha Anant, studying Urban Development and Management at TERI School of Advanced Studies in pursuit of her calling towards all things sustainable and nature-friendly. During her B.Tech days, the travel bug in her magnified and transformed her love of nature, along with writing and photography, into a Blog. The blog, is all about what sustainability is, its meaning and relevance to her, the SDGs, and basically her thoughts and stories intertwined with the problems of the current age (mainly related to and their association with Climate Crisis).

Through the blog, she has been trying to convey the message that the environment is well a part of our lives as is the colour of our room, sometimes even more, and the idea is to break the stereotype around sustainability and create a space that fosters germination of new ideas that understands the need to think about our actions long term!

As she takes on the challenge of creating a slight shake in the Palm Oil consumption patterns in India, her fellowship revolves around, Local Tourism and Sustainability. She is aiming for eateries and cafes to be more sustainable not just in terms of procuring deforestation and sustainably grown oil (palm), but also switch to eco options while limiting plastic and paper waste.

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