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.

UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT ISHAN PRATAP SINGH, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Ashoka University | Sonipat, India | Advancing SDG 11 & UNAI 9

" "Passion for finding solutions and fixing things pushes me to work everyday. The Millennium Fellowship is a responsibility through which I aim to expand and accelerate the progress made on this front. I look forward to work with other people driven towards this cause and aim to contribute significantly to making progress towards Sustainable Development as well as learn a lot from the different and interesting people working in this field." "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Citizens against Urban Heat Island Effect
The project aims to counter the Urban Heat Island Effect in the Delhi NCR region, which is increasingly important since urbanisation has made it imperative to develop systems which ensure that the new and expanding old cities and communities can develop in a sustained manner, without a heating effect which makes it unsustainable for people to live in them. A secondary objective of this project is to localise the net zero effort, since many of the solutions for this problem help in trapping carbon and work in the direction of the Global and national effort to reduce emissions to zero. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, there are certain ways in which this effect can be countered, such are living walls, green roofs and largely developing the infrastructure in a manner that accommodates green spaces by utilising existing gaps which would work towards reducing the overall temperature of the structure and if the effort is large enough, the locality. Some of which this project aims to develop by partnering with institutions, starting with my campus, towards developing these systems, along with local municipal bodies, to work towards this goal. The effort is not so large scale as it sounds, one benefit being its variablel scalability, i.e. it is effective regardless of how much effort is put into it, i.e. it doesn't have a particular critical mass and involves feasibliity reports for installing such infrastructure.
About the Millennium Fellow
Ishan Pratap Singh is a young student majoring in Economics and Finance and minoring in International Relations at Ashoka University. He is from New Delhi and is currently studying Finance at the London School of Economics over the summer. He has always believed that each of the problems faced by the world in the 21st century is based on economics and they can be solved through constructive solution finding by passionate and hard working people and their planned implementation. This faith in the human capability and future has driven him to pursue various projects towards achieveing the SDGs both in his university and outside it. He plans to expand the scope of these projects and launch new ones towards creating a model for social entrepreneurship which would make a profound difference and create hope for a better life for everyone in the future.





