Acceptance Speech – Honaris Causa

Rajendra Shende, Chairman TERRE Policy Centre, Former Director UNEP and IIT Alumnus Chief Guest Dr G Madhavan-ji Nair-ji, founder President Dr Vishwanath-ji Karad, Executive Presidents Prof Dr Mangesh-ji Karad, my IIT Bombay colleague Vice Chancellor Sunil-ji Rai, Distinguished Guests, young, successful and jubilant Graduates and Post-graduates, their beaming and proud parents and grandparents, professors and …

Wuhan deadly Virus and Wuhan informal Spirit – Is there Missing Link?

By Rajendra Shende, Chairman TERRE Policy Centre, Former Director UNEP, Alumnus of IIT Bombay. This article appeared in Social Asia Monitor ( SAM) & Media India Group on 5th Feb 2020 as : Now that evacuation of Indian students and citizens from Wuhan city and the surrounding area in China has been nearly achieved and …

World Ozone Day 2019 Celebrating Montreal Protocol- Treaty to save the world

Every year September 16 is observed as the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer across the world. On this day in 1987, 197 nations inked the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. The celebrations are also known as World Ozone Day. According to the United Nations, the theme for …

Invisible but Invincible Link

Biodiversity , Climate Change and Economic Development  One million species of plants and animals face extinction. This is ominous.  Biodiversity crisis requires transformative change across economic, social and technological factors and that it is not too late to make a difference. Read : former IPBES Chair Sir Robert Watson. 

Lip-Service? Tongue-in-Cheek? Trust-Gap? All in One

India under the leadership of PM Modi and China under President Xi , gave up their long practiced hard negotiating stand for the benefit of the world community.Where as President Obama lost many opportunities to evoke actions on climate change. After leaving the office, surprisingly, he has not been the torch bearer of climate change

By Rajendra Shende, Chairman TERRE, Former Director UNEP, IIT Alumnus More than his birth anniversary world knows more on his death itinerary. Not many were aware that 24th February was 65th birth anniversary of Steve Jobs . He was born on February 24, 1955. That was the day when a genius avatar arrived on the …

By Rajendra Shende, Chairman TERRE Policy Centre, former Director UNEP, and IIT Alumni This article appeared in https://mediaindia.eu/politics/sultan-qaboos-bin-said-henry-kissinger-of-middle-east-with-a-difference/ I strongly feel that the United Nations owes him more than just half-mast. My experience with Oman and visits during my UN days revealed Sultan Qaboos bin Said’s new world of quiet diplomacy, a monarchy committed to the people …

Just 18 months back, TERRE Policy Centre launched a pathbreaking movement for the universities and colleges. It was titled, ‘Smart Campus Cloud Network’ ( SCCN) and was launched at the hands of the then HRD Minister of India Hon. Prakash Javadekar. He pressed the remote control and there came the analytical data of the electricity …

India has blocked G20 efforts to pave the way for an ambitious climate change accord in a sign of deep divisions just two weeks before delegates from almost 200 nations meet in Paris. Through almost 20 hours of talks at the G20 gathering in Turkey Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.ft.com The world is waking up …

Proposed ban on private vehicles is part of a plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2020 compared to 1990 levels Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.theguardian.com Many, in Norway’s capital Oslo, are unhappy that from 2019, the cars will be banned from city centre. Norway is 9th largest exporter of oil and exports 85 …

Yes, Narendra Modi has crossed the boundary of Gujarat and has become a national leader and world’s trailblazer. But when I met youth from three key universities in Gandhinagar, capital of the state of Gujarat, I could not hold my expression that they are “ Youth from Modi’s Gujarat”. Here is why: I was invited …

Time to Start Decarbonisation  We are heading for the sixth extinction of life on the earth. 5th extinction was 65 million years back when dinosaurs and life on the earth vanished when a meteorite struck our planet . The reason? If the temperature rise is to be limited to 2 deg C then unprecedented and far reaching …

It is not the number of trees you plant that matters. It is how early you plant them. The best time to plant the tree was not 20 years back. It was 27 years back when United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC) was signed in Earth Summit at Rio, Brazil. This is …

What gets measured gets managed. And if it gets measured in Campus, its gets managed for ever. Because students are the future policy makers and campus is crucible to mould the minds . A project under Smart Campus Cloud Network-SCCN. READ.

Launch of ‘Climate Pioneer Schools Partnership’ to contribute to Mitigate Climate Change and Sustainable Development Goal #3, 7, 13 and 17.