COP28 moves climate debate: from ‘just words’ to ‘just transition’
'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...
PlanetPulse: Red Light for Humanity
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...
After WFG now WFH and then WFC!
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...
Foundation builds Force to define Future
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...
20th June and 21st June 2023: Refugees and Yoga
Every minute 20 people leave everything behind to escape war, persecution or terror. They are displaced within their own countries or in other countries, mostly neighbouring. World Refugee Day falls every year on the 20th of June. It is an international day declared by the United Nations to respect, honour and care for refugees around the glob...
Yes, we can beat plastic pollution. Just start from Campus! The water that we drink today is possibly what thirsty dinosaurs were drinking about 65 million years ago. This is just one example of nature's invisible 'circular economy'! As the water warms up, it travels into the sky as vapour-very tiny droplets. It comes back as rainwater, when t...
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Confirms it! 'There is a 66% likelihood that the annual average near-surface global temperature between 2023 and 2027 will be more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for at least one year', stated the annual report of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) that was released on 17th May 2023. This is ...
World Health Day- 7 April 2023 The World Health Organisation (WHO) is a specialised agency within the United Nations system. Established on April 7 1948, with its headquarter in Geneva, it promotes health, keeps people safe and serves the most vulnerable and underdeveloped regions on the planet. WHO also prevents public health emergencies like...
286 years! That's the time needed to promote, enforce and monitor gender equality in public life. This stark reality and the fate of SDG 5 on gender equality, are to be achieved by 2030. It was so stated by a multi-agency programme of the United Nations called 'UN Woman'. - Seven years from now. We are not only far away from meeting this goal,...
Wild animals are not wilder any more. Frankly stating "wild animal" is the term developed and used by the humans who are now walking the path of wilderness. We humans have proved from our actions that we are now "Wild Humans" destroying the nature, killing the biodiversity and spreading the seeds of inhumanity between nations. Unlike, animals have...
Imagine that every single second 24,000 tons of blinding white ice solidified thousands of years back melts and adds blue water to the world's oceans? That is equivalent to 750 billion tons of ice every year. Reason? The black emissions. Effect? Deaths of polar bears that live only in ice continents in polar regions. The fiery dance of colour...
By Dr Chandrakant S. PandavPadmashree Awardee (2021),Former Professor & Head, Centre for Community Medicine, The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, The Iodine Man of India, President – Indian Coalition for Control on Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD, New Delhi), IndiaIn Collaboration with –Prof. Rishi S. BharadwajPro...
COVID-19 is not the only pandemic that has trapped humanity. Conflicts between nations, climate change that is heating the world and catastrophic loss of biodiversity are also pandemics that have invisibly engulfed the world. Worse, these three pandemics are interlinked between themselves and also with COVID19! The classical definition of...
Catch-22 is defined as a paradoxical situation from which an individual cannot escape because of contradictory rules or limitations. An example of a catch-22 is a thought: 'How can one get any experience without getting a job that gives one experience'. We had a such situation in the year 2022. While humanity was succeeding in the war against COVID...
We all heard an alarming cry of 2022. It was the cry of the 8 billionth baby borne on the Earth. It was in reality a roaring warning for the world to change our developmental path. The world now needs to produce more Food and Energy and draw more Water for the population of 8 billion which would reach about 8.6 billion by 2030 and nearly 9.8 billi...
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