Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 by The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), as per the endorsement by United Nations General Assembly. The First Assessment Report - in 1990 - consisting of working Group I – Climate Change: The IPCC Scientific ...

COVID-19 is already challenging youth worldwide to test their resilience for the gloomy job market. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) reported that in the first quarter of 2020 ,when COVID-19 set to define the 21st century's mega-calamity, about 5.4% of global working hours, that is equivalent to 155 million full-time jobs, were lost rela...

Universities help in Our understanding The record-breaking heatwave in parts of the US and Canada has brought the mercury rise up to nearly 50 deg C normally seen in the Middle East and in deserts in Northern India. The international team of leading climate scientists concluded that these extreme temperatures at the end of June 2021 would have been...

 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 ...

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...

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...

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...