The South Asian University (SAU) will start an Interdisciplinary centre on climate change, green transition and sustainability at its Maidan Garhi campus in the national capital.
Informing about the decision, President of the university Professor K. K. Aggarwal said, “The South Asian region's fragile ecosystem necessitates a dedicated Interdisciplinary centre to address issues such as climate change, energy transition, and sustainability.”
SAU is an international university, jointly established by the governments of the eight nations of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). About half the students in SAU are from India while the remaining halves are from the rest of the SAARC countries.
“The impacts of climate change in South Asia are severe, affecting biodiversity, human health, and livelihoods and this requires effective adaptation strategies, tools, skills, and collaborative interventions involving a variety of stakeholders. With a mandate to build knowledge networks across borders, the Interdisciplinary centre on climate change, green transition and sustainability is visualised as a centre of excellence, that aims to build knowledge networks and bring together academics, policy makers, practitioners, thought leaders and change makers,” said Aggarwal.
The first meeting of this proposed centre was held on Sunday chaired by Prof. Aggarwal and the gathering was graced by the presence of academicians, policy practitioners, and entrepreneurs.
“We are planning to set up such centres in the field of AI, land slide, cyclone, fisheries, etc. for the larger benefits of the students of SAARC countries”, he said.
