50:50 chance, 1.5 deg C in 5 years
There is a frustrating feeling all around that our race towards keeping the Earth's average rise in temperature below 1.5 deg C, as compared to pre-industrial times, is now almost lost. The latest report from World Meteorological Organization (WMO) stated this week that there is a 50-50 chance the world could temporarily exceed 1.5 degrees Cel...
Sixth Mass Extinction
We can Alter Trajectory Universities have immense potential to predict the future when it comes to climate change which undoubtedly is the most fatal threat to our planet. This potential is enhanced and précised by big data and modelling. Smart digital technologies are coming to help in assessing the future under climate change. Two res...
Technology is a Two-Edged Sword, AI is No Exception
'Technology is Two Edge Sword', that's how the world has coined the phrase after looking back into the history of human development starting with hunting weapons to nuclear fusion. Here comes brand new technology, 'AI - Artificial Intelligence'. Humans can make it not just a double-edged but even a double sharp-edged sword. Here, however, I would l...
Reversing the Trend
Rejuvenation of Adyar river INTRODUCTION: As we peep into the history of life on the Earth for billions of years, we see that water was the origin of life. Life emerged underwater. Thousands of years back, the human settlements and their lifestyles developed and revolved around the rivers. Priority was to fulfil water and food needs. Rivers b...
Two Trillion Hours Gone with the Wind
'Covid-19 pandemic is far from over', is the clear warning given by United Nations a few days back. People must not let their guard down against Covid-19. More than the warnings, I consider, that what is most disturbing is the fallouts from pandemics. That list of fallouts too, is 'far from over. 23 countries have yet to fully re-open educatio...
This is how evacuated University Students Could Help 'Evacuation' of their own university students trapped in Ukraine is the topmost agenda of countries around the world. That sounds quite logical. What can one do when the house is on fire? Priority would obviously be to save the lives by evacuating as many people as possible from the house on...
WORLD WATER DAY, 22nd MARCH 2022 Can the global community make visible the invisible? I am neither referring to God nor ether. This year's theme for 'World Water Day' is making "Making the invisible visible". It is about Groundwater. The theme was decided by the UN organisation called 'UN-Water.' Over 50 del...
The modern digital world of the 21st century has been 'turned upside down' due to the Pandemic Crises of COVID 19. It has brought a major change in our daily life. Humanity came out of caves millions of years back mainly to explore the outside world. Now humanity is required to remain confined to modern 'caves' like houses, classrooms and hostels. ...
Power-Solution to Climate Crisis? Lakes, rivers, swamps, reservoirs, aquifers and other similar small and large water bodies are all part of Wetlands. They cover only around 6 per cent of the Earth's land surface, but surprisingly 40 per cent of all plant and animal species live or breed in them. One in eight people on Earth depends on them for the...
UNESCO-TERRE collaboration makes Smart Campus Cloud Network as Accelerator for Access to Open Data on top of the SDGs and Climate Agenda Paris-Pune 26th January 2022. "World is tremendously off track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030," said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recently. While COVID19 pandemic...
Dr Rajendra Shende, Chairman of TERRE Policy Centre, former Director UNEP and IIT Alumnus was invited by Press to assess India's Federal Budget 2022-2023 presented by India's Central Finance Minister and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman, on 1 February 2022. Dr Shende within a couple of hours after the end of the full presentation as viewed on ...
21st Sept 2021, Kolkata, For the first time ever, one of the largest industry associations and leading civil society organizations together forged a partnership that will be a game-changer in the practical education of sustainable development. "United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the seventeen interlinked pillars for a better a...
In 2022 India has turned 75. It is no coincidence that India's literacy rate has reached 75 Percent from 12 percent in 1947 when India got independence from British rule. Though the rise in literacy rate has been steep, India and so also many African countries have herculin task to continue that rise to keep with global trends. More than ...
In April of 2020, an unusual World War started. Strangely, the enemy was invisible. Never before in the war, the enemy was of size less than half a micron and cannot be detected by the naked eye. That unprecedented war is still on. The enemy, capable to change its avatar, is not yet fully conquered. Mighty humanity, which boasts of artificial...
Rankings of the Higher Educational Institutes (HEIs)\, initiated for the first time in the 1950s, are well debated since then. They are criticized extensively among academicians, local and international governments, the industries. The debates and criticisms are mainly centred around transparency, verification system of collated data, purpose ranki...
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