Youth for climate: Protests or Action?
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: Path to Achieve Sustainability
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...
Yet another report and yet one more warning. Yet another shrug?
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 ...
Without Work? Youth in COVID-19
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...
We need to Change Course Urgently!
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 ...
The G20 countries, which include India and China, are responsible for around 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and 85 % of global GDP. In the G20 countries, around 70 % of climate impacts could be avoided by limiting global warming to 1.5°C instead of 3°C. The recent meeting of the Environment, Climate and Energy ministers of G20 c...
The Heads of State and Government representing the peoples of the world, virtually gathered last year on September 21, 2020, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. UN was established in 1945 post-Second World War. There is no other global organization with the legitimacy, convening power and normative impact as the United Nation...
Universities help in Our understanding The record-breaking heatwave in parts of the US and Canada has brought the mercury rise up to nearly 50 deg C normally seen in the Middle East and in deserts in Northern India. The international team of leading climate scientists concluded that these extreme temperatures at the end of June 2021 would have been...
Read what TERRE-SCCN is doing in the Campus Air pollution is a foggy and fatal problem on our planet . It is result of the path of the development and the choice of technologies that humanity has selected. Indeed, air-pollution and the climate change are the two sides of the same coin.As per WHO air pollution is responsible for ...
When in 2016, TERRE Policy Centre proposed the launch of Smart Campus Cloud Network, University Grant Commission (UGC) Chairman responded very positively and wrote to all the universities that:"The (Smart Campus Cloud) Network is poised to facilitate dialogue and sharing of ideas amongst students and faculty as a way of making the ma...
UN Initiative for Transformation of Food-System of the World In 2019, there were about 1.2 billion youth aged 15 to 24 years in the world, or 16 percent of the global population. But these global figures do not reveal the regional inequity. For example, young people make up 77 percent of the total population in Africa. The message is clear. ...
Modern technology has given humanity the products that made our life easy and convenient, but not necessarily healthy. Plastic is one such product. Plastic is cheap and incredibly versatile with properties that make it ideal for many applications. It is light in weight and can be conveniently converted into different shapes and sizes. Due to these ...
For all of us, nature is green. That's all. Some take holidays to go to nature only to view the 'greenery'. But many of us do not view nature's value. That is the reason why we heedlessly allow environmental damage, destruction, and degradation only to make economic progress, increase GDP and provide the higher dividend to shareholders. That will n...
We, as NGPITians, are very proud to share this success story of ours in creating a Carbon Neutral world. Carbon Neutrality means achieving net-zero Carbon emissions. As such, we do not emit much Carbon Dioxide. As a CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) initiative, we have taken steps to removed Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere to neutralize the ...
Ghani Khan Choudhury Institute of Engineering and Technology, a CFTI under the ministry of Education, Govt. of India is located at Narayanpur, Malda, West Bengal, India. This Institute is growing in a sprawling area of 101 acres of lands, 4 Academic Buildings each of about 3024 sq. m area. Hon'ble Director GKCIET, Prof. P.R.Alapati has taken numero...
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