Making Future Generation SDG-Ready and Climate-Ready
When the war in Gaza was just 15 days away from its first anniversary, and invasion of Ukraine by Russia had already crossed 30 months, not to forget lesser known civil war in Sudan (Africa) that is going on for 18 months, United Nations held 'Summit of the Future' in New York on 22-23 September 2024. That was bold move by UN. Holding such glo...
Summit for the Future
We need to Sum-It all from Past and Present 'Once-in-a-generation opportunity', that's how United Nations describes the 'Summit for the Future' to be held in New York at UN Head Quarters on 22-23 September 2024. The Summit is described as 'a high-level event, bringing world leaders together to forge a new international consensus on how w...
Clean Air and Blue skies: Do not forget Green Land
Do you know the Alphabets of Triple Crisis facing our planet - ABC? Air Pollution, Bio-Diversity Loss and Climate change! This triple crisis is crippling our planet. The first alphabet A for Air pollution is the greatest environmental threat to public health globally and accounts for an estimated 7 million premature deaths every year, which av...
Climate Change Intensifies, and so also Solar Energy
2024 is expected to be even hotter than 2023 as per major international data monitoring organisations in the world. At the same time number of installed solar panels around the world in 2024 will also break the records as it did in 2023. Presently world gets 6% of its electricity from the solar panels, equivalent to all the electricity consumed by ...
Year 2024: Record-Breaking, Record- Smashing and Record-Shattering
Records are not getting broken, smashed, and shattered only regarding global warming and temperatures that began to be recorded in the 1940s. 2024 is the year when globally, more voters than ever in history will head to the polls in at least 64 countries plus the European Union! Nearly half of the population resides in these countries that would go...
The Theme of 2024 World Wild Day Connecting People and Planet: Exploring Digital Innovation In Wildlife Conservation. By Ian Redmond, OBE,Head of Conservation of Ecofix, Senior Wildlife Consultant for Born Free Foundation, UN Ambassador for CMS and expert advisor to Gree TERRE Foundation Happy UN World Wildlife Day . Celeb...
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 Eastern Region of India known as the 'State of Rising Sun'. I was there on the IIT campus for the 'Regional Workshop of the National Movement of Net-Zer...
"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 Animals #CMSCoP14 will be hosted by the Government of Uzbekistan in the historic city of Samarkand from 12th to 17th February 2024 https://www.cms.int/cop14...
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 reduction and real-time monitoring and mapping of CO2 emission in the educational campuses /universities to help understand their progress towards net zero. ...
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 thaw the solid frigid iceberg of the world's addiction to fossil fuel. 'Transition away from fossil fuel', were the words in the final decisions that...
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 professors. Observations are the textbooks. Biodiversity represents various departments of the universities and the projects already implemen...
'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 in Dubai did manage to deliver what was sorely needed, an agreement on transition away from fossil fuels, as it has been labelled in the agreement. How...
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 climate are far slower than the spread of extreme climate events and their severity. The climate crisis is spreading like a Pandemic. The last 4 months are...
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 emerged during the COVID pandemic is Work From Home (WFH)! WFH is a practice that was used rarely but then emerged to protect humanity from CORONA virus. I...
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 effectively SDG 4 is about Ensuring inclusive and equitable education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all. Four underlying principl...
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