COURTESY : www.nrdc.org/ CLIMATE CHANGE Climate change is generally defined as a significant variation of average weather conditions—say, conditions becoming warmer, wetter, or drier—over several decades or more. It’s the longer-term trend that differentiates climate change from natural weather variability. …
COURTESY : www.inspirecleanenergy.com/ Green solar energy The sun delivers more total energy to the Earth every second than we use in a year. Additionally, solar power generates far less pollution than “dirty” power does when it is produced or consumed. …
COURTESY : powermin.gov.in/ Energy efficiency The primary energy demand in India has grown from about 450 million tons of oil equivalent (toe) in 2000 to about 770 million toe in 2012. This is expected to increase to about 1250 (estimated …
COURTESY : www.who.int/ CLIMATE change Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity, and health professionals worldwide are already responding to the health harms caused by this unfolding crisis. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded …
COURTESY : www.cnbc.com/ Green aviation When the first commercial flight took off on 1 January 1914, the carbon emissions contributing to air pollution were probably not the highest priority. More than a century later, in 2019, the actions of young …
COURTESY : pro.duravit.com/ Green arhitecture competition Many factors contribute to a building’s environmental and energy-saving credentials, however, the most important are location, building materials, construction, insulation, ventilation, energy generation and supply and water consumption. This not only presents new challenges …
COURTESY : www.conserve-energy-future.com/ Green arhitecture Green architecture is a green building design technique. The designs are created with the environment in mind including focusing on the larger construction implications of environmental sustainability. Green architecture gives careful consideration to designing energy efficient and eco-friendly houses and …
COURTESY : www.modlar.com/ Green arhitect and firms Energy-efficiency is one of the primary ways that architects are implementing more sustainable building design. Equinor by A-Lab is creating new opportunities for combating climate change, with a building design that draws on construction techniques …
COURTESY : education.nationalgeographic.org/ GLobal warming Global warming is the long-term warming of the planet’s overall temperature. Though this warming trend has been going on for a long time, its pace has significantly increased in the last hundred years due to …
COURTESY : www.ohchr.org/ Eradicating poverty Eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, and meanwhile, sustainable development is one of the most important means to reduce poverty. Therefore, in order to effectively achieve the …
