Centre for Sustainable Development organized Campus Bird Count activity from February 14-17 , 2025. Please see the photos here.
Centre for Sustainable Development celebrated National Wildlife Week by organising bird watching activities, book display at library, workshops, lectures, fun activities, etc. Please click here for photos
A one-day course on ‘Natural Resource Accounting for Sustainability Solutions’ was organised on August 24, 2024. Mr Sunil Dadhe – Retired Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General of India,
Mr Ajay Phatak – Trustee at The Ecological Society, Pune, and Mr Akash Keshav – CEO & Co-Founder of Sprih, delivered the sessions.
Summer School in Geospatial Science and Technology – Level 1, supported by National Geospatial Program, DST was organised from July 1 to 21, 2024. The Principal Investigator of the course was
Prof Vimal Mishra and resource persons included faculty from IIT Gandhinagar, SAC-ISRO, and BISAG-N.
Prof Vimal Mishra, Professor, Civil Engineering and Co-Coordinator, KPCSD, awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2022 in Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean,
and Planetary Sciences by the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), India. Please click here for more details
KPCSD organised Net-Zero Dialogues themed ‘Policy Pulse, Climate Finance and Sustainable Transitions’, in association with14 Trees Foundation, IIT Kanpur and Ecological Society.
The event brought together nearly 50 experts from government, academia, civil society and industry.
Research
Research and consultancies on sustainability and promote national and global collaborations.
Practice
Lab to field technology transfers and implementation on campus and the neighborhood.
Education
Curriculum development at IITGN and advance education on sustainability nationally and globally.
Outreach
Conferences, networking, training programs and workshops for scholars and professionals.
Capacity Building
Customised capacity building programmes, designed to equip participants with the necessary knowledge and skills; and provide platforms for interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge sharing among stakeholders.
Focus Areas
Water
Water and wastewater treatment, desalination, safe drinking water production, hydraulics and water resources engineering, water resource research, water-energy systems, river science, water supply, water conservation, sewage and effluent treatment, low cost sanitation, sustainable river systems, water splitting, ancient Indian water management, smart hydrogels
Climate Change
Climate risks, extreme climatic events, climate variability, food-energy-water security, climate change impacts, critical infrastructures resilience, internal variability, hydrometeorological extremes, physics guided machine learning for hydrological processes, hydrologic modelling, flood hazards, climate change impacts, sea-level fluctuations, irrigation for smart-farming, earth system and sustainability modeling, modeling of human-earth system interactions, sustainable urban development
Energy
Fuel cell systems, energy systems, energy conversion, storage, and optimization, energy management, organic LEDs, solar cells, renewable energy, electricity market, smart distribution grid/ microgrids, thermodynamic optimization, smart manufacturing, smart power electronics, green energy optimization, net zero transition, photovoltaic power conversion, transportation electrification, energy efficiency, distributed energy, ceramics, geothermal energy, energy poverty, nanoscience and electrochemistry in energy applications, hydrogen generation, biofuels
Pollution & Waste Management
Air, water and soil pollution, air quality, laser spectroscopy, particle engineering, built environment, low-cost air quality sensors, environmental policy, surface engineering, waste to resource techniques, Computer simulation of dispersion of pollutants, emission control
Natural Resources, Wildlife & Ecosystems
Wildlife conservation, indigenous peoples, social and environmental justice, Himalayan borderlands, Northeast India, natural resources management, environmental archaeology, sustainability modelling, earth surface processes, sustainable stream management, carbon sequestration, ecosystem restoration and management, archaeozoology, carbon capture, sustainable heritage, tribal development, coastal area management
