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...
The G20 countries, which include India and China, are responsible for around 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and 85 % of global GDP. In the G20 countries, around 70 % of climate imp...
The Heads of State and Government representing the peoples of the world, virtually gathered last year on September 21, 2020, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. UN was establish...
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 ...
Read what TERRE-SCCN is doing in the Campus Air pollution is a foggy and fatal problem on our planet . It is result of the path of the development and the choice of technologies that h...
When in 2016, TERRE Policy Centre proposed the launch of Smart Campus Cloud Network, University Grant Commission (UGC) Chairman responded very positively and wrote to all the universities th...
UN Initiative for Transformation of Food-System of the World In 2019, there were about 1.2 billion youth aged 15 to 24 years in the world, or 16 percent of the global population. But these global...
Modern technology has given humanity the products that made our life easy and convenient, but not necessarily healthy. Plastic is one such product. Plastic is cheap and incredibly versatile with prope...
For all of us, nature is green. That's all. Some take holidays to go to nature only to view the 'greenery'. But many of us do not view nature's value. That is the reason why we heedlessly allow enviro...
We, as NGPITians, are very proud to share this success story of ours in creating a Carbon Neutral world. Carbon Neutrality means achieving net-zero Carbon emissions. As such, we do not emit much Carbo...