Mahatma Gandhi and Confucius
'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...
Solar University Network
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...
Measuring Pollution
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 ...
Care for Air? Dare to Act!
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...
SDGs localisation in campuses
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...
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