Montreal Protocol Archives - Rajendra Shende

My TEDx: Living the Global Transformation-Its Not about Internet !

by Rajendra Shende in SPEECHES. Posted May 14, 2018

My TEDx talk was about my flirting with chemistry, particularly group 7 elements of the periodic table. I loved those halogens. Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine, Iodine and Astatine. I hated people hating them. I had reasons. I lived with them.

Success, tangible and unintended results-Montreal Protocol

by Rajendra Shende in SPEECHES. Posted January 6, 2015

“By 2030, the Protocol may be preventing 2 million cases of skin cancer each year. It will have prevented significant loss of food crops which in turn would have compounded future severe food security challenges” Achim Steiner, USG and ED of UNEP. Speech: Distinguished delegates, Dear colleagues, It gives me great pleasure to welcome you today ...

Future They Do Not Want. UNEP’s success at UNESCO’s celebrations. The real Road Show

by Rajendra Shende in RAJ'S BLOG. Posted November 25, 2014

One of the swan-song-projects that I undertook when I was leading the global capacity building activities in United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Paris was rather out-of-box.

Why did we land in this problem?

by Rajendra Shende in SPEECHES. Posted November 22, 2014

This year is 325th anniversary of the French revolution that changed the world, and India hopes to see in Paris next year in 2015, yet another revolution on climate change to reset the world clock towards climate resilient society.

After 30 years of protecting the ozone layer, some reasons to be cheerful

by Rajendra Shende in NEWS. Posted September 15, 2014

It sometimes feels as if environmental news is never good news, but that certainly isn’t true when it comes to the ozone layer. The UN has announced that the ozone layer is showing “signs of recovery… Source: theconversation.com During 1985 to 1987 the world leaders had difficult negotiations to save the Ozone Layer. But when the ...

Resolution Made When Millennium Dawned:

by Rajendra Shende in RAJ'S BLOG. Posted December 28, 2013

Where it stands and what next? The world leaders in year 2000, which heralded new millennium, made historic resolution like never before.

India Reclaiming Global Leadership on Climate Change

by Rajendra Shende in RAJ'S BLOG. Posted September 23, 2013

A miniscule spot of light that I see at the end of two decades-long tunnel of climate negotiations. Amidst the crisis filled dark world –Syria, Finance, Terror, Quantitative Easing, loss of biodiversity, water, food , fossil fuels and so on

The Shangri-La-Man’s Mission Impossible!

by Rajendra Shende in ARTICLES. Posted July 21, 2013

Ozone Protector from Bhutan Gets elected to the parliament. Talking to Ritu Raj Chhetri in Thimpu, capital of Bhutan, over telephone from Amsterdam in the Netherlands was like talking to some one who is much nearer to Stratospheric Ozone Layer from the place which is vertically farthest from it. Thimpu is third highest capital-city in ...

Margaret Thatcher and Barack Obama- Lessons in Chemistry

by Rajendra Shende in RAJ'S BLOG. Posted June 30, 2013

Roll back, fast backward-exactly 23 years. 27th June of year 1990, I was in the audience listening to then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) headquarters located on the banks of river Thames in London.

May Revolution in China

by Rajendra Shende in ARTICLES. Posted May 26, 2013

This time it is about cooling with flammable refrigerants 26th May 2013 Come May. My Chinese history-buds start sensing a revolution in the air. I recall discussing with the Chinese professors way back in 1993, when China was cracking open the doors to outsiders, the root causes and impacts of well -known Forth May Revolution ...

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