Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 23: Centre for Sustainability and Environmental Management (CSEM), IIM Sirmaur conducted an online day-long seminar titled ‘Restore Our Earth’ under the guidance of Director of the Institute Prof (Dr) Neelu Rohmetra.
The seminar was attended by around 92 participants from across the country. Dr Arpita Ghosh (convener of the seminar and CSEM coordinator) delivered the welcome address. She also informed about the villages adopted by the Institute under the UBA for catering to the socio-economic concerns of the society and creating an enabling environment.
Speaking during inaugural session, Dr Pradipta Patra highlighted the sustainability aspects being taken into consideration while constructing the new IIM Sirmaur permanent campus and further shared that the institute is continuously taking initiative on waste management, sustainability, women entrepreneurship and outreach activities for developing the community.
The first keynote speaker for Panel Discussion on Air Pollution and Climate Change was Prof Sagnik Dey, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi who shed light on air pollution mitigation for Sustainable Development in a warming climate in India.
Samrat Sengupta, Program Director, Climate Change and Renewable Energy, CSE drew attention towards developed countries who are the leading contributors of green house gas emissions. He called out developed countries for derailing and denial of existential crisis of Climate change.
Dr Sumit Tiwari, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Shiv Nadar University spoke about Solar Energy, the hope for the future. He termed Sun as the ultimate source of all energies. He stressed on the fact that solar energy alone can power the world energy use if tapped efficiently.
Er Krishna M Kaushik, Founder and CEO, Hiresun Energy Private Limited continued the session with focusing on putting forward the case of Solar Energy for Sustainability. He opined that when electrical energy per capita consumption increases the illiteracy rate decreases and the development rate increases.
Dr Amit Pandey, Head & Scientist – G, Forest Protection Division, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun explained about the complex forest ecosystems and the emerging pathological problems and their management.
The last speaker of the seminar Rajdeep Pandey, CEO, Enviraj Consulting addressed the issue of land degradation in India.
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