Yet to be born University Students Will Certainly blame Inaction by Present University Students
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...
Universities and Colleges Across the World take Climate Action Ahead of COP26
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...
'No expiry date' for UN values of Peace, Development and Human Rights
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...
Single-Use Plastic Free Campus
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...
Shredding the old thinking that damaged our planet - SCCN-Way
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...
Climate action commitments from rich countries and fury of discussions during pre-COP26 almost overflowed in September 2021. Carbon Neutrality, no-Coal but new clean energy announcements echoed in various international corridors. No one described, however, how those commitments would be implemented and realised. Particularly in 76th General A...
12 August is International Youth Day. In 1999, when the world was entering a new millennium United Nations General Assembly endorsed the recommendation made by the World Conference of Ministers of Youth that ended in Lisbon on 12th August 1998 that 12 August be declared International Youth Day. Undoubtedly 21st Century belongs to youth. Today, youn...
Smart Campus Cloud Network ( sccnhub.com) is not just a digital network of students and faculty of higher educational institutes ( HEIs) but a key driver for change and tool to attain SDGs. TERRE, through its facilitative and catalytic role, allows the students and faculty to prioritize and select the SDGs to launch in their campus for implementat...
There is no Vaccine for our Sick Planet The International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN)'s latest Congress, the very first one after the COVID19 that broke out on our already sick planet was held in the southern French city of Marseille on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The timing, 3-11 September 2021, was the most crucial. The...
COVID-19 is the pandemic that has shaken the world never before. It came as ' A bolt from the blue'.When the world was busy planning for the new year of 2020, came this thunderbolt. No one was prepared. Its impact on education is yet to be known. But severe impacts have been felt and emerging as the world starts and learns to live with the deadly v...
The sea is swallowing villages, rivers are sweeping away the dams, fires are gulping forests, heat waves are frying the ecosystem around us. Time is running out to arrest the catastrophic global warming. There is no need at all to question the existence of global warming. One can see all the extreme events happening more intensely and more fre...
The Great Green Wall is not just about growing trees and plants it is a movement to make indispensable contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Great Green Wall on completion will be the largest living structure on the Earth. It is an ambitious movement to grow an 8,000 km natural wonder of the world across the entire width...
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 by The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), as per the endorsement by United Nations General Assembly. The First Assessment Report - in 1990 - consisting of working Group I – Climate Change: The IPCC Scientific ...
COVID-19 is already challenging youth worldwide to test their resilience for the gloomy job market. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) reported that in the first quarter of 2020 ,when COVID-19 set to define the 21st century's mega-calamity, about 5.4% of global working hours, that is equivalent to 155 million full-time jobs, were lost rela...
Less than 100 days for Global Climate Conference COP26 Glasgow UK Amidst the tsunami of Pandemic of COVID 19 coupled with record-breaking heatwaves, wildfires, devastating floods, melting of polar ice caps and drought across the continents, experts from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), huddled together on 26th July ...
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