India’s Amrit Kal Budget 2022-2023 - Assessment
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 ...
Carbon Neutrality Starts with Buildings. Mainstreaming SDGs & Carbon Neutrality in the Universities
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...
The year 2022: Creating the creed of committed action
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 ...
Looking Back and Looking Forward 2021-2022
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...
University Rankings founded on How they skill the students for SDGs
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...
When the world is not on track to achieve the Goals by 2030, with more action needed across the global community, particularly in light of the coronavirus pandemic and its unprecedented impact on sustainable development, the University College of London (UCL) has published its first report describing how staff and student communities are supporting...
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) launched a global assessment of the marine pollution crisis in the lead up to the Climate Change Conference (COP 26) in Glasgow, UK. Meanwhile, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) issued a working paper titled: 'From Pollution to Solution: A global assessment of marine...
While the world is dismally engaged in titling and headlining the cloudy outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow, a promising interconnected web of Universities called 'Smart Campus Cloud Network' cast it's net wider to trigger actions at the planetary level for carbon neutrality at the place where it matters most-in Campuses. Glasgow deal does not seal th...
Are the global efforts to reduce the GHGs (Green House Gases) emissions after 29 years of the UNFCCC (United Nations Convention on Climate Change), 25 years after signing of the Kyoto Protocol and 6 years after signing of the Paris Climate Agreement, flatly failed and fatally flawed? From the latest report called 'Emission Gap Report 2021' release...
The world is witnessing a massive behavioral and developmental transformation in India. The citizens now have the powerful will and energy to shape India under the leadership of a dynamic Government. Youth plays an important role in transforming their own country and hence the world. To streamline the energy of youth and channel it in nation-buildi...
The world is shaken by the Pandemic. The window of opportunity for carbon-emission reduction is also closing fast signalling a 'Red Alert' on Climate emergencies. Once closed, humanity would be trapped in the planet engulfed with carbon and other GHGs (Global Warming Gases) emissions. As we brace ourselves for COP26 dialogues in the Scottish city o...
1050 universities and colleges from 68 countries have pledged to half their emissions by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050 at the very latest, impacting over 10 million students, was announced on 28th October at the Times Higher Education Climate Impact Forum, showing the education sector's leadership ahead of COP26 in Glasgow, UK. Universities and c...
Today, 24th October is UN Day. It is worth recalling that there is no other global organization with the legitimacy, convening power and normative impact as the United Nations. No other global organization gives hope to so many people for a better world and can deliver the future we want. I am proud that I was one of the blue flag holders in the UN...
World Health Organisation on 11 March 2020 declared COVID 19 as a pandemic. I would venture to emphasise that there are four pandemics running parallel Covd19 PandemicPlastic PandemicClimate Change Pandemic, Bio-diversity Pandemic. The first one is declared by WHO. Others are not declared by WHO but by UNEP as an unprecedented global crisis...
Most of the "New" Policy Documents - be on Environment or Education or Employment or even on the recent policy treatises in vogue that are mushrooming on "building back better post-COVID19 era," have one thing in common. They are all led by thought leaders of earlier generations. We all know that the these old generations are characterised by the d...
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