The Yale Centre for environmental law and policy and the Center for international earth science information network at Columbia University recently released the environmental performance index for 2022. The university ranked India at the bottom of a group of 180 countries. The ranking was based on India’s dwindling climate change Continue Reading
Environment and Sustainability
SUSTAINABLE LIVING IN A PANDEMIC INDUCED WORLD
Climate change, deforestation, depletion of natural resources, global warming, and the extinction of species are no hidden realities. While several organisations, communities, and individuals have been striving hard to promote and advocate ‘sustainable living’, there still exists a need for the majority of the world population to understand this changing Continue Reading
The Climate Dome: An introduction to COP 26
Imagine there is an independent dome, housing 100 people. The dome, a capsule of self-sufficient resources, has been in existence for generations. It is divided into several regions. Every region has its own specificities and features. Some regions are richer, some have more natural resources and some are fighting for Continue Reading
O.P. Jindal Global University Launches 17 New UG and PG Degree Programmes Towards Implementing the NEP 2020
O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) has launched 17 new UG and PG degree programmes spanning across 12 schools for the Academic Session beginning in 2022. The Innovative and Interdisciplinary Programmes are aligned towards implementing the National Education Policy 2022 and aim to offer students scholarly choices in pursuing interdisciplinary, intellectually rigorous, Continue Reading
Is Interdisciplinary Learning an Imminent Reality for India?
It is often at the cusp of different perspectives that the greatest discoveries, innovations and solutions are found. The brilliant Leonardo da Vinci was an epic exemplar of the capability of the human mind to transcend boundaries in the pursuit of curiosity and creation. He is known as famously for Continue Reading
National Education Policy 2020—Reimagining Higher Education & Rewriting the Future of Young India
The promise of radical reforms in the Indian education space has been a long time coming. To be precise, the newly launched National Education Policy 2020 bears the tremendous challenge of plugging a 34-year gap since the National Policy on Education, 1986. The visionary proposal keeps today’s learners at the Continue Reading
If Not Now, When? Five Reasons to Study Environment & Sustainability
The environmental crisis is sweeping the planet. Rising temperatures to loss of biodiversity, increasing pollution to impending population displacement, smoggy skies to sinking coastlines—the effects are devastating. A small group of voices has been screaming climate change for a long time. Yet there is a need for climate action with Continue Reading
The climate crisis is not a distant reality; it’s here and now—are you prepared?
The global environment is changing rapidly. In our own lifetimes, we have seen rivers turn black with pollution, forests disappear and the air become increasingly unbreathable. If the Earth’s systems collapse, so will our societies and our common futures. Sustainable development is an urgent and undeniable need today, to revive Continue Reading
As climate & environmental crises reach a fevered pitch, you can bring the winds of change with a B.A. (Hons.) in Environmental Studies
An unusual bout of heavy rains and freak hailstorm hit New Delhi just two days after an international conference on ‘Environment & Sustainability: Critical Issues & Solutions’ organised by O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) at India Habitat Centre, earlier this year. It was Continue Reading
Impact of Covid-19 on Higher Education—Challenges & Opportunities
Usually, this is the time young students write entrance exams, consider which colleges to apply to in India, or make plans for studies abroad. But there’s nothing usual about the times today. The Covid-19 pandemic has shocked the world. The pressure on students and higher education institutions is high. Schools Continue Reading