| | DECEMBER 20198oday the world is standing at the crossroads of a contradictory energy scenario where-in, on the one hand, energy access needs to be provided to billions while on the other hand, increasing demand and usage of energy is causing catastrophic climate change. The issue of climate change is not only a matter of worry for some but for each and every person living on this planet. It is not just a local problem, but a global problem. The 2018 IPCC report finds that "limit-ing global warming to 1.5°C would require "rapid and far-reaching" transitions in energy and there is need to adopt 100 percent Renewable Energy as early as 2050 in the purview of the climate change.In this backdrop and going by my experience of over two decades in the field of Solar Energy and local community functioning to spread Solar, I decided to embark on a global yatra across con-tinents, across countries and across cities in India. As 2019 is the year of Mahatma Gandhi's 150th Birth Anniversary, what could have been the more appropriate time than this to undertake yatra? After quite some deliberations, we named it Gandhi Global Solar Yatra. It captured all essential messages that I wanted to give; Gandhian philoso-phy for a sustainable world, Global outreach as the climate has no boundaries, Solar energy as Sus-tainable energy solution and reaching out to all by travelling to them.GANDHI GLOBAL SOLAR YATRA RELEVANT LIKE GANDHIJI'S DANDI YATRABy Prof. Chetan Singh Solanki, Department of Energy Science & Engineering, IIT BombayTOPINE MATTERSA renowned professor at IIT Bombay, Prof. Chetan is also known as the `Solar Man of India'GANDHIJI'S DANDI YATRA WAS FOR INDIA'S INDEPENDENCE, GANDHI GLOBAL SOLAR YATRA IS FOR ENERGY INDEPENDENCE! PROF. CHETAN SINGH SOLANKI, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
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