Beautiful can also be Smart
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...
Poster winners of World Water Day 2019
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 –...
Clean and Smart Campus Award
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...
MITADT deploying IoT
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...
Smart Education
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...
A decade of drought in Congress on climate legislation though there were cloudburst of ideas. Are there any hopes for big, broad and bold to make difference? Or the scarcity of the Political courage would prevail? Some ideas are non-ideas. For example, one is : we can keep on using fossil fuels and living life as usual as long as we find a way to k...
'Sustainable development' by practicing in schools Ramanujan, a ninth-class student in Chennai uses his I-pad to go through the video lectures shared by his science teacher and submits the assignment in word format through emails. Raghuram, who studies 8thstandard in Mumbai Public School has not attended the class on last Thursday and his parents r...
You Voice it, We spread it Overview Climate Change and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) are two of the most important global issues on which countries have agreed to take action in 2015. The countries after three years are at various degrees of implementation in mitigating climate change and achieving SDGs. SCCN has initiated ...
Overview Though water in its normal form is liquid, there are solid facts about water. They are fascinating but fatally worrisome. Only 2.5 percent of the total water available on our planet is fresh water, which is essential for most of the life on the earth including plant-life. Of that only 30 percent is accessible in rivers, lakes and ground wa...
Operation Earth-China and TERRE Policy Centre-India have launched China-wide 'Climate Pioneer Schools Partnership' to contribute to mitigate climate change and Sustainable Development Goal #3, 7, 13 and 17 in January 2019 at Beijing. The partnership will also contribute to President Xi's urgency for 'Ecological Civilization' through activ...
TERRE Policy Centre-India, UNESCO-Paris and China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF)-China organised a round table on Smart Campus Cloud Network-SCCN on 25th January 2019 in Beijing. CBCGDF has agreed to be China-hub for SCCN to outreach to Chinese universities High level Representatives from Key universities (Pekin...
The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)-Youth launched a report showcasing 50 youth-led solutions in support of the SDGs. The report examines challenges facing youth-led innovation for the SDGs and proposes recommendations to create more integrated ecosystems of support for youth change makers. The Youth Solutions Report, a flagship...
UN Secretary-General on UN Priorities for 2019 UN Secretary General tells the world to : "dramatically accelerate efforts on key 21st-century challenges, namely: the fight against climate change; achieving the SDGs; and stepping up new technologies that can "turbocharge" this work" UN would hold the High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation for...
The oldest attendee at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos that concluded recently was 92-year-old broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough. He told the gathering "The Garden of Eden is no more". This verdict of Sir Attenborough on the destruction inflicted by humanity on the natural world meant that we cannot even dream of the good times. He sket...
Building Campus Sustainability through energy analytics Educational campuses are generally seen as the altar for teaching, learning and dissemination of knowledge. However, in recent times campuses have also started to move in the direction of addressing sustainability issues in terms of curriculum, research and operational aspects. With the advent...
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