To make the students aware on sustainable development and efforts made by international bodies to save the Mother Earth, the Department of Mass Communication, St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata (SXUK) organised a guest lecture for its postgraduate students on November 3, 2022. The topic was ‘Environmental Journalism: The need of the hour’.

Jayanta Basu, renowned environmental journalist and columnist was the resource person. He narrated how climate change across the world has become a global threat and resulted into burning of Amazon, carbon sink, etc.

He also referred to the deterioration of East Kolkata wetlands as a local threat. Citing examples from his own drafted reports published in different dailies, he discussed various issues held responsible for global climate change and recommendations of COP26 and COP27 to avert the same. Students found the session highly enriching.

Dr. Reshmi Naskar