Category: NEWS & EVENTS

'Clean and Smart Campus' award to encourage cleanliness and 'Smart' use of technology TERRE Policy Centre and International Institute of Waste Management have also associated themselves with AICTE for contributing to the overall cause of the award. (more…)...

WHO’s survey of 1600 world cities concluded that New Delhi has the worst air pollution of any major city in the world. Air pollution in India is estimated to kill nearly 1.5 million people every year; it is the fifth largest killer in India . Is there any one listening ? (more…)...

Rising temperatures and extreme weather events on the rise has brought home what environmentalists have warned for at least 15 years: environmental sustainability is essential for economies to prosper and citizens’ welfare. (more…)...

5,000 citizens on MIT-ADT University campus pledge to reduce carbon footprint; solar energy, plantation drives, e-vehicles are all initiatives under the project with an NGO (more…)...

The oldest attendee at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos that concluded recently was 92-year-old broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough. He said that we humans are a “problem-solving species”. But are we the species that solve the problem in time? (more…)...

7th Dec 2018 Katowice, Poland: “The Smart Campus Cloud Network is a bespoke approach to empower and support students and faculty to begin action on climate change urgently”, said Prof. Frederick Dubee, Former Senior Advisor, UN Global Compact and UN Secretary General Office. Prof Dubee was speaking as a chief guest at the Press Conference of TERRE Policy Centre in Katowice during COP24, organized by United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). During the press conference ‘Climate Neutral University Campus’ was launched along with a tool-kit and water guidelines for Smart Campuses. “The creativity, ability and the desire of the youth represent a powerful asset for all humanity. Smart Campus Cloud Network (SCCN) of universities, facilitated by TERRE Policy Centre and supported by UNESCO leverages this asset to address the Climate emergency”, added Prof Dubee. The kit and the guidelines that are meant to initiate the actions in the...

3rd Dec Katowice, Poland: The first ever pre and post-Paris Agreement appraisal of India’s commitments in addressing Climate Change was released on 3rd Dec 2018 by Dr. Harsh Vardhan Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MOEFCC) at Katowice, Poland at COP 24. Biz@India’s special issue on COP 24 ‘Paris to Katowice’ which contained such detail appraisal in story-telling mode was published by Media India Group, a Paris and New Delhi based media powerhouse dedicated in promoting India’s efforts in sustainable development. It was supported by the Indian Embassy of Poland. “Under the vision and guidance of our Prime Minister we have aligned and synchronized our climate commitments, called Nationally Determined Contributions, NDCs, submitted to UN in 2015, with India’s development goals”, said the Minister Dr. Vardhan while releasing the publication, signaling that climate change is an integral part of Sustainable Development. The special issue catalogues the extensive dialogue with the Secretary of...

When Luís Afonso de Castro met me in Geneva, at International Trade Union’s cafeteria and requested a copy of my power point presentation that I had just delivered in World Summit on Information Society, I thought it is just one of those mundane requests from the young enthusiast. (more…)...

If you are asked to name a river in Kutch in Gujarat, you would wonder if there exists any. Kutch at the time of the Alexander the Great and King Poras, Kutch was all sea. Now it is salt-desert. But it does have rivers. One of them is theRukmavati Riverwhich empties into theArabian Sea Mandvi, an ancient port town, is located on the banks of this river just at the mouth where it meets the Arabian Sea near the Gulf of Kutch. Mapping the banks of these rivers which are flooded during rains only, helps in fetching the fresh water on sustainable basis for the people there. An initiative by the Vivekanand Research & Training Institute, (VRTI) Kutch, Gujarat did exactly that, and much more. That won them Earth Care Award of JSW and Times of India. As a member of the jury, I was astonished to read and see how the NGOs work in arid, salty hot and humid...