I plan to write series of articles , one in each of 'Globally Smart' bulletin on What , Why, When and How to be Net Zero. It would include why Universtieis must become Net Zero for the world to become Net Zero. Here is the first of the four articles: What is net zero? Our planet is heated by the Sun . Part of that heat is radiated back to the atmos...

Picture this: university campuses—buzzing with ideas, energy, and tomorrow's leaders—transformed into living laboratories for climate solutions. As the founder of Smart Campus Cloud Network, I've seen first-hand how students learning-by-doing can turn lecture halls into launchpads for planetary healing. And with the IPCC's 2050 net-zero deadline lo...

Human Natural intelligence now has now found additional digital muscle, called AI-Artificial Intelligence! World is full of AI-buzz. AI-conferences and debates are floodingthe premises of governments, business and the academics. Even the UN Secretary-General has established a High-Level Advisory Body of 39 members on AI.The benefits of AI as well a...

It is now confirmed by The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) that the past year 2024 was the warmest year in the recorded history of the global temperatures. This conclusion emerged from the six international datasets, that WMO scientists worked with. But that's not all, the past decade (2015-2024) was the warmest decade on the records in an ...

A delegation of postgraduate students from ESMT Berlin, Germany's premier business school, visited the Green TERRE Activity Center to explore Indo-German partnerships for advancing Net Zero Universities. Facilitated by the Rotary Clubs of India and Germany, the visit highlighted practical sustainability solutions and global academic collaboration. ...

But How Long? The United Nations General Assembly declared 2025 as the 'International Year of Glaciers Preservation' and 2025-2034 as the 'Decade of Action for Cryosphere-Sciences'. It also declared 21stMarch as the very first 'World Day of Glaciers'. The next day - 22nd March is World Water Day that is being observed for more than 30 years. The su...

 Terre Policy Centre, as a part of an 'International E Internship Program on Climate Change and Biodiversity', invited Dr Ian Redmond, world renowned Naturalist and Conservationist to give a talk on the 'Role of Apes and elephants in Combating dangerous Climate Change' on 30th June 2020. The International E-Internship program is a 7 week long ...

How far we have reached? Traditionally, from the inception of commercially availed electricity, we have been utilizing electricity form the grid. The electricity has always flowed one way to our doorstep from some remotely situated gigantic power station. But from the past decade and a half, the business model of the whole energy industry is being ...