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...
Message on the birth anniversary of Chhatrapati Shivaji (Maharaj) On 19th February 2024, I was at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, located in the Indian state of Assam. Assam is in the Ea...
"Nature knows no borders" is the slogan for the most important UN wildlife conference this year. The 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animal...
Digital Measurement Prevents Green Washing "What is not Measured, Cannot be Managed". One of the important discussions of U75 during India's presidency of G20 was to track emission reducti...
Are we Transitioning Away from Climate Pledges? COP28 ended in the hottest year on record in human history. The record volume of ice melted in the Arctic, Antarctic and Himalayas. But it did not...
Achieving Net Zero does not need upskilling but it demands green skilling. Fortunately, those green skills are not difficult to acquire. The nature is the university, and the flora and fauna are the p...
'Transition away from fossil fuels' was historic inclusion in final UAE Consensus After being extended, hardly an unusual development for the global climate change negotiations nowadays, COP28 i...
SDGs 7 (Clean Energy) and SDGs 13 (Action on Climate) are directly impacting climate change. But 7 years after SDGs were agreed by all the countries in the world, energy transition and action on clima...
I consider that PM Modi's 'Mission LiFE' - LifeStyle for Environment is an enabling and essential tool for achieving SDGs and carbon neutrality. An example of one such LifeStyles change that has emerg...
That's what Global Network of Universities is all about 'SDG4Education' is a very apt term! All the 17 SDGs require 'education for all' in order that their implementation takes place on time and...