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October 3, 2024

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

October 3, 2024

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.

October 3, 2024

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.

October 3, 2024

A five-day compulsory refresher training course for Indian Forest Service (IFS) Officers on ‘Cutting-edge Techniques and Technologies for Forests and Wildlife Conservation and their role in achieving
Sustainable Development Goals’, sponsored by MoEFCC was conducted from May 13-17, 2024. Prof C N Pandey was the Course Director.

October 3, 2024

The Centre for Sustainable Development at IIT Gandhinagar and IIM Ahmedabad jointly organised a one-week Capacity Building Programme of National Experts involved in the Greenhouse Gas (GHG)
inventory preparation under the Enhanced Transparency Framework of the Paris Agreement, from April 25-May 1, 2024.

November 21, 2023

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

November 7, 2023

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.