Volunteers tie red tape on trees, take pledge to save environment

Kanpur: World Environment Day was celebrated with zeal and enthusiasm by volunteers of Red Tape Movement following the Covid-19 protocols amid the lockdown on Friday.
Only one person per family was allowed to participate in the event wherein he had to tie a Red Tape on a tree in the vicinity of his/her house, said Prabhat Misra, founder of the Red Tape Movement, district saving officer Firozabad.
“About 5,000 school teachers from across Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand, directly and indirectly involved with the movement participated in the event from their homes on Friday,” said Misra adding that, “All the participants took oath to ‘change climate change’ and make a ‘carbon neutral world’. They also shared their pics tying a red tape on tree through social media apps”.
Misra said, Erik Solheim, a Norwegian diplomat and former politician, who served in the Norwegian government from 2005 to 2012 as minister of international development and minister of the environment, and as under-secretary-general of the United Nations and executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme from 2016 to 2018, appreciated the efforts of over 5,000 teachers for conservation of the environment through Red Tape Movement on his Twitter account on Friday.
Misra, through video conferencing, made the students aware about the need to plant more trees.