ARTICLES Archives - Rajendra Shende

Mario Molina goes beyond Stratosphere

by Rajendra Shende in ARTICLES. Posted November 21, 2020

Unknown to humanity, in the later decades of the last century an environmental crisis was slowly unfolding in the upper atmosphere. The existence of the ozone layer was proved by chemists in the early 20th century, but as a scientific curiosity rather than a beneficial barrier. A thin layer between the troposphere, in which we ...

Elephants as Ecosystem Engineers

by Rajendra Shende in ARTICLES. Posted August 12, 2020

Elephants, because of their size, appetite, and migratory habits, disperse more seeds of more species further than any other animal. They have been described as ecosystem engineers and mega- Gardeners of the Forest. We from South Asia should be proud that we also produce mega size engineers! By Rajendra Shende, former Director UNEP and Chairman TERRE ...

A truce with difference India and China-Eternal neighbors with Ephemeral trust

by Rajendra Shende in ARTICLES. Posted July 10, 2020

By Rajendra Shende, Chairman TERRE Policy centre, former Director UNEP, IIT Alumnus Also Appeared in: The Indian media, centres of strategic studies, retired diplomats as well as so-called China-watchers had vintage time over a couple of months in airing their ‘old-wine-in-new-bottle’ views on India-China conflict in the Western Himalaya. The stand-off was filled and punctuated ...

World Refrigeration Day: Remembering nature’s Refrigeration

by Rajendra Shende in ARTICLES. Posted June 27, 2020

World Refrigeration Day: TERRE Policy Centre’s ‘disruptive’ celebration. The term refrigeration is applied to the process of cooling below ambient temperature. Cooling for comfort, cooling for preserving much-needed food, life-saving medicines and vaccines as well as in a special system of production and maintenance of sensitive products are all well known. The essential part played ...

Modi, Macron, and Xi for COVID 19

by Rajendra Shende in ARTICLES. Posted April 29, 2020

Cooperation and collaboration, not competition or chaos A call of the moment. A global initiative: WAVE- World Alliance for Virology and Epidemiology by Rajendra Shende, Chairman TERRE Policy Centre, former Director UNEP, IIT Alumnus Terrific trio’s potential to defeat COVID 19 needs to be urgently deployed. Modi, Macron and China can do it. COVID19 is ...

COVID19 to CLIMA30

by Rajendra Shende in ARTICLES. Posted March 20, 2020

By Rajendra Shende, Chairman TERRE Policy Centre, Former Director UNEP COVID 19 is a health crisis. It has socked the world. But the next crisis would be related to Climate, runaway global warming. I call it CLIMA30. If we do not act on the carbon-neutral pathway suggested by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ...

Formidable Tasks, Now and Then

by Rajendra Shende in ARTICLES. Posted March 15, 2020

By Rajendra Shende, Chairman of TERRE Policy Centre, Former Director UNEP, IIT Alumni When I joined the United Nations in 1992, I dedicated myself to the cause of the protection of the Earth’s life-shielding Ozone Layer. About 15-35 km above the earth’s surface lies stratosphere which is characterised by the presence of Ozone molecules with ...

Largest Negotiations on Migration – No, not on the migrations of refugees.

by Rajendra Shende in ARTICLES. Posted February 29, 2020

By Rajendra Shende, Chairman TERRE Policy Centre, former Director UNEP. India was the host for the largest ever negotiations ever in the history of the international Convention related to Migration. With 2,550 participants including 263 delegates representing nearly 90 countries, 50 representatives from United Nations agencies, 200 representatives of NGOs, and over 100 members of ...

Modi’s dream of 5 trillion Economy: Action on Climate Change is the Key

by Rajendra Shende in ARTICLES. Posted January 29, 2020

We can forget COP 25 but not the Mega Opportunities. India can reach its goal of USD 5 trillion through the Low-Carbon economy. By Rajendra Shende, Chairman TERRE Policy Centre, former Director UNEP and IIT Alumni. The article also appeared in South Asia Monitor ( SAM) under the title: “Ambitious Climate Action can help India ...

Mahatma Gandhi and Confucius – Future depends on what we do today.

by Rajendra Shende in ARTICLES. Posted January 15, 2020

By Rajendra Shende, Chairman TERRE, and former director UNEP ‘Future depends on what we do today’- That’s the quote of Mahatma Gandhi displayed on Indian Pavilion at UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid known at COP 25. It was clear to me, that what the world is doing today to our planet’s climate does not ...

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