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ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2022

United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. Over 31,000 young leaders on 2,400+ campuses across 140+ nations applied to join the Class of 2022.  200+ campuses worldwide (just 8%) were selected to host the 3,000+ Millennium Fellows.

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UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT UDIT SINGHAL, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.

University College London | London, United Kingdom | Advancing SDG 11 & UNAI 9

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" I am most passionate about solution-driven sustainability and climate action. The Millennium Fellowship programme would be another measured avenue allowing me to further my stance in sustainability with tangible solution-driven impact action at my university. Access to world-class training and the opportunity to work alongside like-minded change-driven Millennium Fellowship members would prove to be a key asset in enhancing my social impact, as I strongly advocate for creative synergies serving as the cornerstone for meaningful impact. "

Millennium Fellowship Project: Glass2Sand

Glass2Sand is an environmentally-friendly “zero-waste” ecosystem and “no glass to landfills” movement I set up in India in 2018, at age 16. It addresses the growing menace of glass bottles not being recycled and being dumped in already scarce landfills in India – where they won’t decompose for a million years. Empty glass bottles are crushed into commercially valuable silica sand using an innovative technology for use in sustainable construction – a major “unknown-to-many” recycling gap is being plugged.

About the Millennium Fellow

Udit Singhal, a 20-year-old social entrepreneur, finance & tech enthusiast and artist from India, is the founder of Glass2Sand – an environment-friendly zero waste initiative and “no glass to landfills” movement he conceived at the age of 16 to address the menace of glass waste being dumped into landfills by crushing it into commercially-valuable sand. In September 2020, he was appointed by the United Nations as one of 17 Young Leaders for the SDGs from around the world (the only one from India) for his contributions to sustainability. As part of this role, Udit speaks at Global Conferences and strategizes closely with various UN Organisations for effective youth climate action. He is currently a Summer Analyst within Sustainable Finance at JP Morgan Asset Management and an incoming final-year student at University College London, studying Management Science.

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