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UN DECADE ON ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION


 

 

Commitment to UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration:

Collaborating organizations are expected to commit to their proposed restoration projects and adhere to the principles of sustainable and impactful ecosystem restoration. As a next step, to proceed with your involvement in the ecosystem restoration initiative, please submit the Symbolic Commitment form. This submission is a crucial step in formalizing your engagement and expressing your intentions for collaboration. This collaboration presents a unique opportunity to make a tangible impact on ecosystem restoration, aligning with global efforts to restore and protect our natural environments for future generations.

Reference Documents:

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Download Challenge 3 & 12 Action Plan

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The Role of Universities and their Leaders Facing the Grand Challenges of Climate Change and Sustainability

This research project investigated the role that higher education can play in addressing the challenges of sustainability and climate change, and particularly the importance of leadership and governance. Dr. Golda A Edwin and Dr. M Nandhivarman from India joined the team that included investigators/ researchers from seven countries and was supported by the Körber Foundation, on behalf of the Global University Leaders Council. The study looks in detail at the situation in Brazil, Germany, India, Japan, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. It also presents cross-national lessons learned as well as recommendations for future action. To download/ read the full report, please click here.

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Green Protocol for Wetlands

The Vice-Chancellor of Pondicherry University, Prof. Gurmeet Singh, and the Deputy Conservator of Forests and Wildlife, Smt. Vanjulavalli Sridhar, IFS, jointly launched the ‘Green Protocol for Wetlands’, in the presence of  Dr. Ramakichenin Balagandhi, Director, Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Prof. S. Balakrishnan, Director Studies, Pondicherry University; Dr. B. Chitra, Registrar, Pondicherry University; Prof. K. V. Devi Prasad, Dean, School of Life Sciences; Dr. Golda Edwin, Executive Director, APSCC; Prof. A. Shahin Sultana, Dean, Students Welfare; Prof. R. Nalini, HoD, Department of Social Work; Er. N. Sankaramourthy, Executive Engineer; and Dr. M. Nandhivarman, Coordinator, Office of Green Campus, Pondicherry University.

Launch of ‘Green Protocol for Wetlands’ grouped under five heads

Strategies for Wetland Rehabilitation
Community Participation
Storm Water Drain Management
Approach for Buffer Zone Sustainability
Action Plan for the Water Body

The purpose of the launch is to catalyze the students and the community, jointly to work for the sustenance of the wetlands. The protocol was drafted on the platform of basic conservation ideas to raise awareness and to participate in the protection of this dwindling resource. 

Further to sensitize and create awareness among the ‘Mitras’, Thiru. Rudra Goud, Director, Department of School Education, is jointly organizing a ‘Drawing Competition’ in all the 400+ Public Schools reaching over 4500 participants, under the wetland day theme of ‘wetlands and water’.  Besides, to catalyze the ‘Wetlands Mitras’ (or) ‘wetlands friends’, a wetland conservation network is also planned for the ‘transformation’ of the students and community – climate change perspective.

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https://www.worldwetlandsday.org/display-event?eventEntryId=807772&redirect=%2Fdashboard%23event807772

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Training and Capacity Building for the Compliance of ‘Green Protocol’ @Puducherry – Regenerative Agriculture

‘Training and Capacity Building for the Compliance of “Green Protocol” @ Puducherry’, was provided to the Post Graduate Students of Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France along with the students& researchers of Pondicherry University (Central University) & Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (Central School). In this program activities, special preference was given to water-food-energy-biodiversity nexus, resource recovery, conservation, and entrepreneurship (startups & green business ideas) – encompassing ‘regenerative agriculture’. ‘Regenerative Agriculture’ is an integrated soil conservation approach primarily focusing on the topsoil regeneration by re-establishing the ecology of soil biodiversity, thereby increasing the readily available plant nutrients and water-holding capacity, and strengthening the water cycle, ecosystem services, complex food chain, and bio-sequestration, ultimately forming the base for resilience to climate change. The purpose of this training and capacity building was to provide a roadmap with background and a broad conceptual framework to plan and implement ‘green campus’ strategies for sustainability and/or to kick start similar strategies in Universities/Colleges/Schools across the globe, for the compliance of ‘Green Protocol’.

The ‘Activity Report (Pictorial)’ of the same was released by the Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor Gurmeet Singh, in the presence of  Thiru P. Dhanabal, Chief Judge & Chairman, District Legal Services Authority, Puducherry; Thiru L. Robert Kennedy Ramesh, Principal Sub-Judge & Secretary, District Legal Services Authority, Puducherry; Prof K.V. Devi Prasad, Pondicherry University; Aravazhi Irissappane, Director; Eminent Professors Dr. G. Krishnamoorthy, San DiegoState University, California, USA & Dr. Stephanos Stephanides, University of Cyprus, along with the Convener – Dr. Golda A. Edwin Executive Director, APSCC and Dr. M. Nandhivarman, Secretary-General, APSCC.

This pictorial document in below link is a summary of the various tasks and activities performed in the training and capacity building program.

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Green Protocol Compliance at the Chief Secretariat

Under the direction of Mr. P. Jawahar, IAS, Secretary to Government (Smart City) & Mr. P. Parthiban, IAS, Secretary to Government (Climate Change), APSCC did an assessment study to transform the Offices of the Chief Secretariat – Government of Puducherry In Compliance with the Green Protocol. More than 40 measures were recommended to transition to a green and environmentally sustainable office.