MARLING student Hagar Niblett has had his green project included at a UN exhibition that launched in New York on Wednesday, July 14.
The month-long exhibition ‘Climate faces – Changing Earth, Changing Lives’ celebrates global efforts to combat climate change and has been on show to world leaders in the United Nations including Her Majesty the Queen.
In February 2009 Hagar was selected as Climate Change Champion for England and in June he helped to launch Green Travel Month, which encouraged people within Stroud to reduce their carbon footprint and use a more environmentally friendly form of transport.
He said: "My reaction to having our work displayed at the UN was that of sheer shock. "The project is still only small with lots of room for growth, so to have it on display for the world to see is utterly mind blowing.
"Sustainable travel is of up most importance, we either have to change our behaviour or adopt new technologies, which are not ready yet.
"TripSwitch aims to help us change our behaviour."
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