Its objective was to aware monks and visitors to adopt climate friendly lifestyles. Briquette training has already been organized for monks of the Thrangu Tashi Yangste Monastery. It is a research based project to develop the carbon neutral monastery through the process of motivational awareness to address the issue of climate change. SEN has already completed a project “Mission Carbon Neutral Nepal: A Pilot Project on Namo Buddha Monastery”.
SEN conducted a workshop among monks on Climate Change and Sustainable Lifestyles in 2008. In this context, the conference aims to bridge the knowledge between monks and civilians about the climate change, to identify the ways to reduce their carbon footprint, and motivate them to live carbon neutral life to contribute for climate change mitigation from local scale. However, facts show that monks have comparatively higher carbon footprints than an average Nepalese. The meet is focused on the monks whose lifestyles is considered to be simple and non-violence to nature. The objective of the project is creating the long term mass awareness on climate change with the base of Namo Buddha Monastery. Monk’s Meet on Climate Change is the part of the ongoing project “Communicating Climate Change: We can address it, solution within us”.
Monks from different monasteries within country are expected to participate in the program. Namo, who remained a monk, is about to leave the airport to go to another country to practice as a thudong (Pali: dhutaga) wandering monk. The Small Earth Nepal (SEN) in collaboration with Thrangu Environmental Club and Thrangu Tashi Yangste Monastery, with the support from Korea Green Foundation organized “Monk’s Meet on Climate Change” on 25 November 2011 at Namo Buddha, Kavre.
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