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• Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design India

LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: Energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.

The Indian Green Building Council has adapted LEED system and has launched LEED India version for rating of new constructioN

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BOD is only a measurement of consumed oxygen by aquatic microorganisms to decompose or oxidize organic matter.

COD refers the requirement of dissolved oxygen for the oxidation of organic and inorganic constituents both.
Cultural model of Conservation
• This is based on a respect for rights of indigenous peoples & other bearers of “traditional knowledge” & prevents social conflicts.
• It involves forest dwellers in forest mgmt. & governance & acknowledges traditional rights of tribal over minor forest produce & provisions for making conservation more effective & more transparent.
• Kinshasa Resolution of 1975 (under IUCN) provides international recognition to cultural model of conservation. It acknowledges importance of traditional ways of life & land ownership, & call on governments to maintain & encourage customary ways of living
2015 – Paris Convention

Target – 2060 – 100% CO2 ↓
→ Temp 2 °C below industrialization
→ Mission innovation
→ 2022 – 175 GW energy from renewable energy
Extinction Rebellion
(abbreviated as XR)

is a global environmental movement with the stated aim of using nonviolent civil disobedience to compel government action to avoid tipping points in the climate system, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse.


Extinction Rebellion was established in the United Kingdom in May 2018.
WORLD AIR QUALITY REPORT 2019


The 2019 World Air Quality Report was released by the pollution tracker IQAir and Greenpeace.
Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA) is India's own rating system jointly developed by TERI and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India.

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Earth Alliance, a new organization to help address the urgent threats to our planet’s life support systems – born out of the shared passion of its founding co-chairs: environmental activist and Academy Award-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio, businesswoman and philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, and investor and philanthropist Brian Sheth.

Launched in response to a growing climate crisis and staggering loss of biodiversity threatening the stability of life on Earth, the Alliance marks a shared commitment to addressing these intertwined threats.
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Ecosystem


It is defined as structural and functional unit of
biosphere consisting of living beings and physical
environment, both interacting and exchanging
materials between them
Green Building Certifying Agencies
There are various certifying agencies that help building developers to implement these principles and get green certification. Some of them are:
▪ LEED-India – Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) is an international recognized certification system for the green buildings. The LEED-India Green Building Rating System is an international benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings (provided by IGBC).
▪ IGBC Ratings – The Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) is a division of the Confederation of Indian Industry that works closely with the government and aims at sustainably built environment.
▪ BEE-ECBC – The Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) was established by the Indian Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) to set energy efficiency standards for design and construction of buildings.
▪ TERI GRIHA – The Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA) is a national rating system for green buildings that is adopted while designing and evaluating new buildings.

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World Wildlife Day

On 20 December 2013, at its 68th session, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), in its resolution UN 68/205, decided to proclaim 3 March, the day of the adoption of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1973, as World Wildlife Day, which was proposed by Thailand, to celebrate and raise awareness of the world's wild fauna and flora.

Theme for 2020

2020: The 2020 theme is “Sustaining all life on earth"

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“International Union for Conservation of Nature”

IUCN also played a fundamental role in the creation of key international conventions, including-
1- Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (1971)
2- World Heritage Convention (1972)
3-Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, (1974)
4-Convention on Biological Diversity (1992).


World Conservation Strategy (1980)-
-Published by IUCN, WWF and UNEP
-a ground-breaking document which helped define the concept of ‘sustainable development’

Caring for the Earth(1992)-
-A subsequent version of the World Conservation Strategy
- Published by IUCN, WWF and UNEP
-served as the basis for international environmental policy and guided the creation of the Rio Conventions on
biodiversity (CBD), climate change (UNFCCC) and desertification (UNCCD).

IUCN was granted observer status at UN General Assembly in 1999
“NABARD and climate change”

NABARD has been identified by the Govt of India and the international climate agencies under UNFCCC as the National Implementing Entity(NIE) for various funds-

1- Adaptation fund
2- National Adaptation fund for climate change(NAFCC)
3- GCF
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