Dr MS Swaminathan Research Foundation's (MSSRF) Botanical garden campus in Wayanad, Kerala was registered with the Smart Campus Cloud Network(SCCN) this month to support the best practices in biodiversity conservation on campus. Dr Anil Kumar, Senior Director of MSSRF hailed SCCN as an initiative much in need for mainstreaming the Sustainable Devel...

IITM ENVIS and TERRE Policy Centre organized a unique World Ozone day celebration on the 16th of September. It included speakers from NASA and UNEP , Question and Answers and prizes for the winners of the various competition. Dr Paul Newman from NASA and Dr Gilbert Bankobeza from UNEP were invited to celebrate 35 years of Ozone layer protection und...

Engineer's Day in India is celebrated as a tribute to the greatest Indian engineer and Bharat Ratna Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya who was born on 15th September, 1861. Apart from being one of the greatest Civil Engineer from India he also served as Diwan of Mysore in the year 1912. In the year 1955 he received Bharat Ratna which is the highest hono...

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United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) unanimously agreed by all the 193-member states countries in the world in September 2015 at UN Sustainable Development Summit in New York are basically the 17 Goals to transform the world. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and...

"There are few global agreements as successful as the Vienna Convention forthe Protection of the Ozone Layer. Today, on World Ozone Day, we celebrate 35years of this convention, which was the first step in fixing the hole in the planet'sozone layer.Gases used in aerosols and cooling appliances were causing this hole. Underthe convention's Montreal ...

​Young Leo , one of the interns of the International E-Internship Programme, launched by TERRE Policy Centre,asked a simple question that itself embedded a hidden solution to world's most pressing and clamouring challenge. How to feed, soon to be, 9 billionhumanity without ravaging our planet's ecosystem? Remember 'Malthusian Trap'?Thomas Malthus, ...

The word 'sustainable' is now ubiquitous and used as free-for-all adjective even for profits and wealth. 'Sustainable Profits' has entered in many corporate reports. That, however, is not the only reason to understand and differentiate between such terms and 'sustainable agriculture'. The benefits of Sustainable agriculture are critically related t...

Recently, SCCN launched a nationwide survey seeking to understand the 'E-learning readiness' for the college goers in the country- a particularly relevant subject in the current pandemic induced remote learning. The survey is designed to assess the preparedness in terms of access and quality of infrastructure related to e-learning for college stude...

There is a renewed interest in 'VUCA World' (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity in the World) during this pandemic. VUCA – first used in 1987, drawing on the leadership theories of world-renowned guru on the subject, Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus. COVID 19 situation fits well into VUCA world. COVID19 challenge is extremely serious and...

NEP 2020 and SDG 4

''This Policy proposes the revision and revamping of all aspects of the education structure, including its regulation and governance, to create a new system that is aligned with the aspirational goals of 21st-century education, including SDG4, while building upon India's traditions and value systems.'' – New Education Policy of India 2020. The UN h...

All the Vice Chancellors of 5 Major Agriculture universities in Maharashtra came together and decided to take up the goal of sustainability in farming. This was the first in a series of engagement with agriculture colleges to take the conversation forward on climate resilient agriculture and sustainability. Today thousands of farmers of India face ...

 The Institution Innovation Council (IIC) an Initiative of MHRD Innovation Unit organized the IIC 2020 National Innovation Competition for all IIC institutes. Building on the success and lessons learned from the national proof of concept competition (POC competition -2019) and regional mentoring sessions 2019, the national innovation competiti...

​It was indeed my great honour to support 'Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Young Researchers' Fellowship' which was awarded to 11 young scientists on 27th July 2020. That day was the 5th death anniversary of Dr Kalam, India's former President, the highest political figure who was felicitated with the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award. His was extraor...

 Terre Policy Centre, as a part of an 'International E Internship Program on Climate Change and Biodiversity', invited Dr Ian Redmond, world renowned Naturalist and Conservationist to give a talk on the 'Role of Apes and elephants in Combating dangerous Climate Change' on 30th June 2020. The International E-Internship program is a 7 week long ...

On the 3rd of July, Mr Erik Solheim, former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, addressed the interns at the International E-Internship Programme on Climate Change and Biodiversity. He gave a talk on the "Role of Clean Energy in meeting the targets of Paris Climate...

Proud to announce that SCCN (Smart Campus Cloud Network) flagship project of TERRE Policy Centre has entered into partnership with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) as a Networking Partner for their SDG Help Desk to strengthen the sharing of knowledge and facilitate information exchange. The partne...

Smart Campus Cloud Network (SCCN) joins hands as Ecosystem Partner for the Circular Innovation Jam 2020! for India region which is organized by The Incubation Network in collaboration with Climate Collective and AtWorks. This regional ideation event will take place across five countries in South & Southeast Asia. The event seeks to develop inno...

Environment and Emergency are now synonyms!  5th June 2020 is 46th World Environment Day (WED). It is a global event coordinated by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) where I led the most successful global programme of capacity building of the 146 developing countries that resulted in 'flattening' the rising curve (to use current COVI...

Talk show of two giants in Global Environment - Advocacy and Action On 31st May 2020, a webinar was arranged by TERRE Policy Centre and National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela's; Spartan Digital Conclave an association of students from NIT Rourkela hosting two eminent personalities in the space of environment advocacy, Dr. Rajendra Shende, ...

 The COVID-19 pandemic has put several essential services to a standstill, in need of innovative solutions for service delivery. Education is one such sector. Seeing into the 4th phase of the lockdown, we find that schools and college campuses are not operational and students are awaiting their exams. CBSE board exams have been pushed to the f...

"Quiz करो ना-An Awareness" An online quiz competition with the objective to spread awareness on COVID -19 was launched by TERRE Policy Centre's Smart Campus Cloud Network in association with MIT-ADT University, Pune. The contest observed a participation of total 2891 students from various institutions. The Competition was just not creating awa...

On the 11th of May webinar on 'Importance of Multilateralism in the Time of a Global Pandemic' presented by Hon. Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Foreign Secretary, Govt. of India and moderated by Prof Joe Thomas, SCCN Advisor. The webinar was being organized by MIT World Peace University in association with TERRE Policy Centre as a part of the webinar seri...

Republican Student's Federation of India (RSF) a youth body based in Chandrapur, Maharashtra with support of Smart Campus Cloud Network (SCCN) of TERRE Policy Centre, had started the drive to donate grocery kits and masks to the needy families from the Chandrapur district of Maharashtra. Around 520 families have been assisted as of now. Around 500 ...

Interaction with Minister Prakash Javadekar In wake of Tsunami of COVID19 Indian Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar has not forgotten yet another Tsunami that is waiting in the wing to take over the world by yet another disaster of planetary proportion. His Keynote speech in the webinar organized by TERRE Policy Ce...

22nd April 2020 At the Climate Dialogue held on Earth Day, April 22, India's Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar presented India's stand on mitigating Climate Change through his interaction with nearly 350 climate experts, students and enthusiasts. He interacted with the participants through webinar organised ...

First ever webinar on Impact of COVID-19 on SDGs was held on 17th April. The webinar was organised jointly by TERRE Policy Centre, MIT-WPU and Tata Institute of Social Sciences. The focus was on impact of COVID-19 on Food security and SDG 1 and 2. Dr. Rajendra Shende, Chairman, TERRE Policy Centre gave a keynote start to the webinar by giving a bri...

Outreach S2S (Support to Stranded Students) 7th April 2020 India's soft power running faster than COVID-19. 1 hr for need assessment 3 hr to develop and Launch portal. More than 16,000 users in 24 hrs. 80 institutions participated in zoom meeting. All India Council for Technical Education & Terre Policy Centre in action. 'Social Distancing with...

​Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences was established in 1986 as an Engineering College in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. It was granted an autonomous status in 2000 and in 2004, it was declared as Deemed-to-be University by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in recognition of its academic excellence by the Ministry of Human Resources Developm...

​Number of Deaths have gone viral, but modern technology-based solutions can also go viral 19th March 2020. It has been spreading at ferocious speed. World in 2019 expressed such spread as 'it has gone viral'. The tweet, post or video going 'viral' means in short time huge number of people noticed it. WHO release today (19th March 2020) sated that ...

SCCN is proud to partner with MIT - World Peace University for initiating students to come up with the solutions to major environmental problems like high water and energy consumption, increasing carbon footprint rates, solar panel maintenance and battery issues of E-vehicles. MIT is organising a hackathon - HACKMITWPU, a 1...

Nature-based solutions offer the best way to achieve human well-being, tackle climate change and protect our living planet. Yet nature is in crisis, as we are losing species at a rate 1,000 times greater than at any other time in recorded human history and one million species face extinction. In addition to important moments for decision makers, in...

India was the host for the largest ever negotiations ever in the history of the international Convention related to Migration. With 2,550 participants including 263 delegates representing nearly 90 countries, 50 representatives from United Nations agencies, 200 representatives of NGOs, and over 100 members of both national and international media i...

Team SCCN was invited to the Universities in Gujarat for the interaction on what practical contributions that youth can make to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by hands-on work in the respective campuses. The interactions were NOT on what are the SDGs, and what is the global status of the progress on SDGs. Nor were they on change in curriculum...

On Lantern Festival with full moon,nCoVirus is yet to be eliminated.The nationwide war against virus continues !Stop eating wildlife, block the source of virusLegislation cannot wait anymore ! Universities in China are closed but not the minds of the students. Their minds are lit in the lantern festival though they remained silent. Marking the...

The land of Asiatic Lions, the white desert of Rann of Kutch, colourful handicrafts, festivals, food, unique culture, and its many religious sites – Gujarat, has decided to transform its universities into Smart and Sustainable campuses. Smart Campus Cloud Network (SCCN), a network of universities with currently 74 members in its pilot phase that en...

A Bottom-Up Approach Towards Migratory Species Conservation: ​"Migratory species are part of our planetary. They connect all of us on the planet together. We welcome them to our home". To effectively mainstream biodiversity conservation and effectively manage the conservation of species, the significance of mobilizing joint efforts from the general...

​A Decade of Delivery begins with Decisive Digitalization 2020 marks the beginning of the decade that would end by making or breaking the global resolve on SDGs. I must say that clock has started ticking. Sound of that tik-tok is deafening. It's not just an alarm. It is a siren. Four years of the fifteen years of the implementation of global goals ...

Making the SDGs a matter of Speed and Scale  WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development), a platform for business organisations to respond to sustainability challenges recently published the article to mark the beginning of final decade to attain the SDGs. WBCSD calls it Decade of Action. Read the full article https://bit.ly/2SG...

 Digital India is a Dream. E-waste is a RealityNetwork of Smart Campus can realize the Dream by Managing the Reality MIT-World Peace University (MIT-WPU) of India has become the first university to launch e-Waste Management program across their campuses through participative approaches. Students and Faculty have begun collection and segregatio...

Cooling from 5500 deg C to 10 deg C without using fossil fuel. Surprised? Read below…. Mr. Hajime Yabase from Waseda University, a member of SCCN shared the technology details of solar air-conditioning, natural refrigerants, heating and cooling refrigerants, and H2 energy usage to the university students of MITADT also member of SCCN. Mr. Yabase is...

SCCN is bringing Smart GiveAway for the students of Higher Education Institutions. The 20 deserving students will receive the special document of 'Twenty Questions and Answers about the Ozone Layer', prepared by World Meteorological Organization (WMO), United Nations Environment Programme (UNE), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA...

Many state leaders are far happier to fund disaster repair than to invest in disaster avoidance. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been filling in the reports with 'costs' of prevention and cost of disaster. But some state leaders are not ashamed to inform the benefits of heating the planet! The loss of common sense is the bigges...

The serene campus of MIT Arts, Design & Technology (MITADT) University is now ready to become Carbon Neutral. A formal meeting was organized with Dr. Sunil Rai, Vice-Chancellor and SCCN Core Group representatives of the campus in 2nd Jan 2020. Rajendra Shende, Chairman and Dinah Gengmei, Project Leader from SCCN of TERRE Policy Centre had an in...

107th Indian Science Congress in Bengaluru - A City of Science, Space and Strength Technology is a key tool of Smart Campus Cloud Network - SCCN ( see: https://www.sccnhub.com ), where we are not only focused on creating ideas but to shape these ideas into smart solutions for sustainable tomorrow. PM Modi at 107th Indian Science Congress in Bengalu...

TERRE Policy Centre, represented by Dinah Gengmei, Project Leader got an opportunity to introduce and share the progress of Smart Campus Cloud Network (SCCN), which is one of its flagship project in the 10th Annual General Meeting of the Education Promotion Society for India (EPSI) on 23rd December, 2019 in Pune. The meeting was chaired by Dr. G Vi...

The 'Clean and Smart campus' competition was organised by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), wherein TERRE Policy Centre was its partner, instrumental in establishing the 'smartness' aspect of it through its flagship project - Smart Campus Cloud Network. The award ceremony was organised on 3rd December 2019 and Hon. H...

'Future depends on what we do today' - That was the quote of Mahatma Gandhi displayed on Indian Pavilion at UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid known at COP 25. It was clear to me that what world is doing today to our planet's climate does not match with the future that we want. There is a total mismatch and misalliance. Quarter of the century h...

175 GW. That is a target of renewable energy that India has pledged as a part of the pledges given in COP 21 in Paris climate agreement. Share of solar energy in this overall target is 100 GW, of which 40 GW is solar energy generated from the roof top installations. As of today, India has installed about 32 GW of total solar power capacity. In orde...

Universities are getting ready: Setting up air quality monitoring stations 'Schools across Delhi and Noida region to remain closed, low visibility due to heavy smog disrupted flight operations at the Delhi airport, with flights diverted to other airports and departures and arrivals getting delayed' was the news flashing on November mornings. While ...

What cannot be measured cannot be managed. This is a basic mantra of management including, crisis management. Fortunately, now we have technologies that enable online and real-time measurements and collect data with the help of IoT (Internet of Things). We can also use Big Data Analytics for modelling the air-mass movement and AI (Artificial Intell...

TERRE Policy Centre and MIT World Peace University held  high level consultation on localising SDGs in university campuses on 15th November 2019. Prof. Dr. S. Parasuraman, Vice-Chancellor of MIT WPU and Former Director / Vice-Chancellor of Tata Institute of Social Sciences said, "SDGs implementation has to be a bottom-up approac...

Italy will become the first country in the world to make sustainability and climate crisis compulsory subjects for school children starting from coming year. Starting September 2020, public schools in Italy will have to incorporate 33 hours of climate-related lessons into their annual curriculum. State schools will begin incorporating the UN's...

After the official announcement that Chile would no longer host the upcoming COP 25 (United Nations Climate Change Conference) due to its socio-political crisis in the country, all States that are Parties to the Convention will meet in new venue - Madrid, Spain from 2 to 13 December 2019 under the presidency of the Chilean ...

The buzz everywhere is about Industrial Revolution 4.0. No one however, talks about how the humanity would be ready for that revolution. It is a stark truth that in all the earlier industrial revolutions that began with steam engine, the labour force was not educated for what was coming to them. The education followed the revolution, which is ...

Stimulating insightful discussions on sustainability, climate actions and carbon neutrality were concluded during Qatar Sustainability Summit (QSS) on 28th October 2019 at St. Regis Doha. Co-organised by the Gulf Organisation for Research & Development (GORD), QSS gathered advocates, practitioners and researchers to share th...

Pune's Air Quality and the Air Information & Response (AIR) Plan Date: 17th October 2019 Venue: IITM, Pashan road, Pune Participants: Representatives of 15 – 20 organisations On 17th October 2019, the key organizations assembled for a roundtable discussion in Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), which was co-organized with Natu...

UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites now boasts total of 1121 sites from 167 countries, including 213 WNH sites. These also include the inscription of 29 new sites approved by World Heritage Committee of UNESCO at Baku, Azerbaijan in July 2019. Out of the 29 new sites inscribed, only 4 were under category of natural heritage and remaining were cul...

What does it take to follow a sustainable approach for a smart campus? A headstrong Campus Community. In May 2019, Odisha was hit by devastating 'Fani', which brought severe cyclonic storm with 3-minute sustained winds of 185 km/h (115 mph) since 1999 Odisha Cyclone. Despite the infrastructural and resource loss, the confidence showed by the educat...

Apple Park, the tech new headquarters that opened in 2018, was the final vision of the firm's founder: Steve Jobs. In his final public appearance before his death on October 5th 2011 addressing a team of Cupertino council members, he said "It has got a gorgeous courtyard in the middle, and a lot more. It's a circle, so it's curved all the...

Climate Action and Sustainable Future Imagine selling refrigerator and Air conditioners to people in Arctic Circle. It will be like selling the solar panels and wind mills to generate electricity in Middle East countries, which are fossil fuel rich. Middle East countries couldn't care less. Right? Wrong. One of the Middle East countries is now...

On 4th October 2019, the SCCN team visited Symbiosis Institute of International Business (SIIB), Pune (which is the first campus of SCCN initiative of TERRE Policy Centre) to plan 'Smart Campus Week' for the month of January 2020. The smart campus week concept would be focused on having series of lectures, workshops and interactive s...

Mr. Rajendra Shende, Chairman TERRE Policy Centre was invited as an expert guest to speak on Sustainable Development Goals and relevance of sustainable development for educational campuses. As a part of climate education, TERRE under its Smart Campus Cloud Network (https://www.sccnhub.com) and the Climate Reality Project (www.climate...

Participants from Fergusson College: Dr. Tanuuja Marathe (Officiating Principal and Head of Geology Department, Fergusson College) Dr. Swati Joglekar (Vice Principal) Ms. Rupali Gaikwad (HOD Environment Science) Students (50) and Faculty (5) Participants from TERRE SCCN: Dinah Gengmei, Project Leader Sourav Dutta, Project Coordinator An interactive...

​Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology is one of the most sought after Institutions for offering higher standards of technical knowledge to student fraternity. Established in 1998, the Institution has marched towards the pinnacle of glory through its remarkable achievements in the field of Engineering Education. It is an autonomous Inst...

The Clean and Smart Campus Award 2019 is now in its scrutiny phase. On 29th August 2019, the committee of 20 experts in the field of Civil Engineering, Environment and Information Technology assembled to discuss the strategic method for campus visits, wherein seven teams representing the seven colors of  rainbow (VIBGYOR) were formed...

We hear about recycling of plastics, waste and water. But have you heard about recycling of whole sport stadium. Yes, this is what exactly being done in Qatar. Not only that, it would be re-used in other places anywhere in the world. Recycle and Reuse. Qatar's latest World Cup Stadium is coming to life, one shipping container at a time. Sustai...

The concept of organic farming is not a new thing for the farmers of India, it has been in practice since ancient times. The primary aim of organic farming is to help the soil stay in good health through the use of biological and organic wastes to produce nutritious food. Using organic farming technique helps in sustainable and pollution free produ...

Earth without Ozone is like a house without a roof The theme for this year celebrates over three decades of remarkable international cooperation to protect the ozone layer and the climate under the Montreal Protocol. It reminds us that we must keep up the momentum to ensure healthy people and a healthy planet. The Montreal Protocol has led to the p...

History is made: Results would be out soon  Ranking for the wealthy people in the world is pass time of many media agencies. That exercise is well surveyed and recorded with great regularity. University ranking based on academic criteria is also made available globally and nationally almost annually. But here comes the ranking of the top ...

Posted on: 15 August 2017 By: admin Learning by doing - Smart Campus Cloud Network explained The Smart Campus Cloud Network has been at the forefront in driving the Sustainability mission for new India. The UGC (University Grant Commision) of Ministry of Human Resource Management has urged the college campuses across India to undertake SCCN activit...

Hon. Prakash Javadekar,India's Central Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Minister of Information and Broadcasting, who launched the dashboard of SCCN on 5th June 2017 reviewed the progress of the Network. His mentoring was instrumental in transforming SCCN to make it a National and now a Global movement. He agreed that India's ...

To write an history, one must have an account of the past and stories of what went before. To write about a future, on the other hand, we must have narrative of the imagination and what lies ahead. But what about 'History of the Future'? At various times in the past, the great visionaries have imagined the future. They predicted forthcoming revolut...

Progress towards the Global Goals in the University and College Sector The Global Goals are a global blueprint that are designed to deliver progress, peace and prosperity for people and the planet. But to turn this plan into action, the UN and nation states need all the support it can get from partners in Higher and Further Education Institutions. ...

Clean and Smart Campus Award application that started on 14th June to 19th July 2019 for AICTE approved educational institutes is now on its scrutiny process. The esteemed experts on 7th August 2019 came together in AICTE Headquarter, New Delhi for the review of 739 applications and first level of scrutiny. The meeting was attended by the following...

The University Grants Commission (UGC) India hosted a meeting on 9th April 2019 to streamline environment and sustainable activities in the educational campuses. The commission in its 540th meeting on 9th April decided to develop a guideline on 'Eco-friendly and Sustainable Campus Development'. Smart Campus Cloud Network (SCCN) will be an instrumen...

Exciting and challenging journey towards PM Modi's target of 'USD 5 trillion economy of India within 5 years' has already begun in India's college and university campuses. A national competition of 'Clean and Smart Campus' for the higher education institutes launched by All India Council of Higher Technical Institutes (AICTE) of Ministry of Human R...

SCCN for "Energy and City of the Future" Smart Campus Cloud Network will be featured in International Conference 'Energy and City of the Future' to be held on 18th – 20th December 2019, as Mr. Rajendra Shende, Chairman TERRE Policy Centre and Former Director UNEP has been invited to speak on the UN SDGs and its linkages with energy forum. MITADT Un...

'Go Green' – An individual responsibility The concept of "going green" has become a trend among youth since recent years. With climate change and other environmental issues in many of today's headlines, it has become fashionable -- even profitable -- to use the term. But many lack a full appreciation of and awareness for what it really means to go ...

Why action is needed? "A job which is not green is not decent". Climate change is one of the defining challenges of our time which is a cross-cutting development issue that affects every aspect of sustainable development. The effects of climate change worsen the existing economic, political and humanitarian struggles and affect human development. S...

29th July 2019  The concept of Earth Overshoot Day was first coined by Andrew Simms, from the UK think tank – New Economics Foundation, in association with Global Footprint Network, which is an international Research Organisation working towards putting an end to the ecological overshoot by making ecological limits central to decision making. ...

Located in the Satara district of Maharashtra, Kaas Plateau (locally known as Kaas Patthar) is a hotspot for biodiversity in the Sahyadri sub-cluster of the Western Ghats. TERRE Policy Centre was instrumental in supporting Government of India in getting UNESCO's World Natural Heritage Site status for The Plateau of Kaas in the year 2012. Since then...

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), a statutory body of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with TERRE Policy Centre, not-for-profit organization working on environmental and sustainable challenges. The partnership is to work closely on the synergies of 'Clean and Sma...

A game changer in learning   As most of the students know, admission into the college that they prefer is always hard and arduous. And it is even harder to settle in the campus as a fresher. Everyone in the campus is stranger for the fresher. Remember the first few days when you entered the campus? You wanted to know where the administrative b...

Time is running out for United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are now embraced globally by all the countries. Launched in the beginning of 2016, they are to be achieved by 2030. We have 12 years from now to accomplish that task. Fortunately, we have with us a treasure of lessons learnt while implementing Millennium Development ...

15 Vice Chancellors, 15 Deans/Directors and 10 Professors from leading institutes of Southern India participated in the roundtable consultation organized by TERRE Policy Centre and SRM University on 18th May 2019 at SRM University. A one-day consultative meeting in SRMIST campus, Chennai was organized to discuss the objectives, process of implement...

SRM University (SRM Institute of Science and Technology) has moved to establish SRM College of Agricultural Sciences with the mission to; Contribute to the initiatives on "Doubling the farmer's income" and "Sustainable Development Goals".Promote agroecological and climate-smart principles to support the adaptation of agricultural and allied activit...

SRM provides knowledge and support for teaching, conducting research and capacity building on the principles and practices for climate-smart, sustainable agriculture to produce healthy food with higher-factor productivity and livelihood security; Agroecology - This offers multiple benefits, including for increasing food security and resilience, boo...

A global poster competition under Smart Campus Cloud Network was announced on Earth Day 2019 based on the theme of World Water Day After the worldwide participation, we are happy to present to you the final top 3 Posters: 1.Greta Hakobyan – State College of Fine Arts, Armenia 2.Phuntsho Dolma – College of Science and Technology, Bhutan 3.Nane Nur –...

AICTE in association with TERRE Policy Centre and International Institute of Waste Management have announced 'Clean and Smart Campus' Award for the educational institutes that is based on the Environment and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The objective of the award is to raise awareness of the students, faculty and institution towards the en...

0 Advanced issue found▲️1 Hon'ble Mr. Eric Falt, Regional Director UNESCO's Cluster office New Delhi launched the first Carbon Neutral Campus at MIT ADT University at Rajbaug, Loni – Pune on 4thApril 2019 MIT Art, Design and Technology (MIT ADT) University Campus at Rajbaug, Loni, Pune has announced its mission to be Carbon Neutral on 4thApril...

2 Advanced issues found▲️  Textbook to Facebook - Rajendra Shende, Chairman TERRE Policy Centre, Former Director UNEP and IIT AlumnusEnter heading here... 2019 will see Facebook become 15. That is the age when adolescence begins. 2019 will probably be the first year when Textbook will begin its journey towards obsolescence. May be that jo...

A decade of drought in Congress on climate legislation though there were cloudburst of ideas. Are there any hopes for big, broad and bold to make difference? Or the scarcity of the Political courage would prevail? Some ideas are non-ideas. For example, one is : we can keep on using fossil fuels and living life as usual as long as we find a way to k...

'Sustainable development' by practicing in schools Ramanujan, a ninth-class student in Chennai uses his I-pad to go through the video lectures shared by his science teacher and submits the assignment in word format through emails. Raghuram, who studies 8thstandard in Mumbai Public School has not attended the class on last Thursday and his parents r...

You Voice it, We spread it Overview Climate Change and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) are two of the most important global issues on which countries have agreed to take action in 2015. The countries after three years are at various degrees of implementation in mitigating climate change and achieving SDGs. SCCN has initiated ...

Overview Though water in its normal form is liquid, there are solid facts about water. They are fascinating but fatally worrisome. Only 2.5 percent of the total water available on our planet is fresh water, which is essential for most of the life on the earth including plant-life. Of that only 30 percent is accessible in rivers, lakes and ground wa...

Operation Earth-China and TERRE Policy Centre-India have launched China-wide 'Climate Pioneer Schools Partnership' to contribute to mitigate climate change and Sustainable Development Goal #3, 7, 13 and 17 in January 2019 at Beijing. The partnership will also contribute to President Xi's urgency for 'Ecological Civilization' through activ...

TERRE Policy Centre-India, UNESCO-Paris and China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF)-China organised a round table on Smart Campus Cloud Network-SCCN on 25th January 2019 in Beijing. CBCGDF has agreed to be China-hub for SCCN to outreach to Chinese universities High level Representatives from Key universities (Pekin...

The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)-Youth launched a report showcasing 50 youth-led solutions in support of the SDGs. The report examines challenges facing youth-led innovation for the SDGs and proposes recommendations to create more integrated ecosystems of support for youth change makers. The Youth Solutions Report, a flagship...

UN Secretary-General on UN Priorities for 2019  UN Secretary General tells the world to : "dramatically accelerate efforts on key 21st-century challenges, namely: the fight against climate change; achieving the SDGs; and stepping up new technologies that can "turbocharge" this work" UN would hold the High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation for...

The oldest attendee at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos that concluded recently was 92-year-old broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough. He told the gathering "The Garden of Eden is no more". This verdict of Sir Attenborough on the destruction inflicted by humanity on the natural world meant that we cannot even dream of the good times. He sket...