Energy and City of the Future
SCCN for "Energy and City of the Future" Smart Campus Cloud Network will be featured in International Conference 'Energy and City of the Future' to be held on 18th – 20th December 2019, as Mr. Rajendra Shende, Chairman TERRE Policy Centre and Former Director UNEP has been invited to speak on the UN SDGs and its linkages with energy forum. MITADT Un...
Sustainability tips for college students
'Go Green' – An individual responsibility The concept of "going green" has become a trend among youth since recent years. With climate change and other environmental issues in many of today's headlines, it has become fashionable -- even profitable -- to use the term. But many lack a full appreciation of and awareness for what it really means to go ...
The Shift to Green Economy
Why action is needed? "A job which is not green is not decent". Climate change is one of the defining challenges of our time which is a cross-cutting development issue that affects every aspect of sustainable development. The effects of climate change worsen the existing economic, political and humanitarian struggles and affect human development. S...
EARTH OVERSHOOT DAY
29th July 2019 The concept of Earth Overshoot Day was first coined by Andrew Simms, from the UK think tank – New Economics Foundation, in association with Global Footprint Network, which is an international Research Organisation working towards putting an end to the ecological overshoot by making ecological limits central to decision making. ...
The Kaas Plateau
Located in the Satara district of Maharashtra, Kaas Plateau (locally known as Kaas Patthar) is a hotspot for biodiversity in the Sahyadri sub-cluster of the Western Ghats. TERRE Policy Centre was instrumental in supporting Government of India in getting UNESCO's World Natural Heritage Site status for The Plateau of Kaas in the year 2012. Since then...
All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), a statutory body of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with TERRE Policy Centre, not-for-profit organization working on environmental and sustainable challenges. The partnership is to work closely on the synergies of 'Clean and Sma...
A game changer in learning As most of the students know, admission into the college that they prefer is always hard and arduous. And it is even harder to settle in the campus as a fresher. Everyone in the campus is stranger for the fresher. Remember the first few days when you entered the campus? You wanted to know where the administrative b...
Time is running out for United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are now embraced globally by all the countries. Launched in the beginning of 2016, they are to be achieved by 2030. We have 12 years from now to accomplish that task. Fortunately, we have with us a treasure of lessons learnt while implementing Millennium Development ...
15 Vice Chancellors, 15 Deans/Directors and 10 Professors from leading institutes of Southern India participated in the roundtable consultation organized by TERRE Policy Centre and SRM University on 18th May 2019 at SRM University. A one-day consultative meeting in SRMIST campus, Chennai was organized to discuss the objectives, process of implement...
SRM University (SRM Institute of Science and Technology) has moved to establish SRM College of Agricultural Sciences with the mission to; Contribute to the initiatives on "Doubling the farmer's income" and "Sustainable Development Goals".Promote agroecological and climate-smart principles to support the adaptation of agricultural and allied activit...
SRM provides knowledge and support for teaching, conducting research and capacity building on the principles and practices for climate-smart, sustainable agriculture to produce healthy food with higher-factor productivity and livelihood security; Agroecology - This offers multiple benefits, including for increasing food security and resilience, boo...
A global poster competition under Smart Campus Cloud Network was announced on Earth Day 2019 based on the theme of World Water Day After the worldwide participation, we are happy to present to you the final top 3 Posters: 1.Greta Hakobyan – State College of Fine Arts, Armenia 2.Phuntsho Dolma – College of Science and Technology, Bhutan 3.Nane Nur –...
AICTE in association with TERRE Policy Centre and International Institute of Waste Management have announced 'Clean and Smart Campus' Award for the educational institutes that is based on the Environment and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The objective of the award is to raise awareness of the students, faculty and institution towards the en...
0 Advanced issue found▲️1 Hon'ble Mr. Eric Falt, Regional Director UNESCO's Cluster office New Delhi launched the first Carbon Neutral Campus at MIT ADT University at Rajbaug, Loni – Pune on 4thApril 2019 MIT Art, Design and Technology (MIT ADT) University Campus at Rajbaug, Loni, Pune has announced its mission to be Carbon Neutral on 4thApril...
2 Advanced issues found▲️ Textbook to Facebook - Rajendra Shende, Chairman TERRE Policy Centre, Former Director UNEP and IIT AlumnusEnter heading here... 2019 will see Facebook become 15. That is the age when adolescence begins. 2019 will probably be the first year when Textbook will begin its journey towards obsolescence. May be that jo...
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