For example, purchase of star rated ACs can reduce electricity consumption and carbon footprint.

However, the impact of this star rating will be lost if the individual household uses the ACs at very low temperature for significant number of hours.

This is where the behavioural change must come in.The use of non-motorized transport or avoidance of transport is another important approach.

As much as an individual reduces to travel that much of air pollution and GHG emission can be saved.

Instead of travelling to a distant place to purchase foods and home needs, the individual can choose to buy them in nearby shops.

One practice getting popular is the home gardening to grow flowers and vegetables from one’s own terrace space.

Every project needs to be assessed on various risks like institutional risk, financial risk, technical risk, risk against natural disasters and climatic factors, political uncertainties, legal risk, sustainability risk, market risk, social and gender risk, knowledge management risk, etc.

The risk assessment is applicable irrespective of the size and context, whether it is an individual energy generation project or a country level development program.

Existing commitments and activities of the stakeholders on way forward will help evaluate and assess the risk level.

Only in early 2000s, there was increased awareness and the countries started paying much more attention to the management of MSW.

They introduced several concepts like source separation of MSW in order to segregate biodegradable wastes from the others and carry out engineered landfill of the remaining wastes.

The segregated biodegradable wastes are collected and transferred to the MSW biogas power plants to generate electricity.

30 years back people started using 200 kW capacity wind mills to generate electricity using wind energy.

R & D is going on for even much bigger capacity.

This miracle happened in solar PV based electricity generation also.

Thanks to mass manufacturing of solar panels.

While the cost of a cup of coffee increased considerably now, compared to 30 years back, how come renewable and clean energy technology price reduced a lot?

Money infused into renewable energy market due to Climate Change is the answer.

What does it mean to save planet?

We are in an era where global warming needs to be taken care of, otherwise our future generations will suffer a lot.

Many are still not aware of this fact.

So it is mandatory to create awareness about this issue.

The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report emphasises that behaviour, lifestyle and cultural change of the people have an important role in bringing climate change impacts under control.

The more developed the country is, the more the per capita energy consumption and associated GHG emissions.

All companies have policies but whether the company policy incorporates social responsibility is a big question mark.

A good company policy should include Energy Policy, Environment Policy, Climate Change Policy, social responsibility, etc.

Social responsibility includes Ocean, Lake, River, Forest, Biodiversity Preservation, clean city, etc.

As much as an individual reduces to travel that much of air pollution and GHG emission can be saved.

Instead of travelling to a distant place to purchase foods and home needs, the individual can choose to buy them in nearby shops.

One practice getting popular is the home gardening to grow flowers and vegetables from one’s own terrace space.

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges we are facing and right now we are actually on the edge of the environmental disaster.

Hence its high time for us to realize that, not just industries but every individual on earth is responsible for carbon footprint reduction (CFP) in his/her daily life.

The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report emphasises that behaviour, lifestyle and cultural changes of the people have an important role in bringing climate change impacts under control.

More developed the country is, more the per capita energy consumption and associated GHG emissions are.

For example, purchase of energy efficient air conditioner can reduce electricity consumption and carbon footprint.

Similarly, the use of non-motorized transport or avoidance of transport as much as possible is another important approach to reduce greenhouse gas emission.

Now a days it is very hard to find a good Energy and Environment Centre providing excellent Skill Development and Training with Energy Certification Courses.

If anyone wants to pursue a career in Energy, Environment and Climate change field, they must undergo Skill Development and Training in those areas.

If Skill Development and Training is provided along with Certification it will give more edge for them over the others in getting a job.

But Energy Certification Courses and Skill Development and Training are not only for fresher’s who want to get a job, it is equally important for those who are working in Energy, Environment and Climate Change sector to update their knowledge in order to work in various innovative, futuristic, complex and competitive projects which will give a better solution for Global Warming, Carbon Footprint Reduction, Environmental conservation, Sustainable Development, etc.

The Skill Development and Training Programmes may be customized which include but not limited to Energy Efficiency ESCO, Climate Change Management, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Alignment, Demand Site Management, Rural Electrification, Renewable Energy, Solar Power, Wind Power, Hydropower, Biomass Power, Biogas Power, Project Financial development, Environmental Aspects and Climate change policy.

The United Nations put forth a new of set of 17 universal goals, known as “Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” to address the environmental, social and economic challenges across the globe, which was adopted by 193 countries of UN General Assembly in 2015.

These SDGs were built on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which was started as a global effort to reduce extreme poverty, child mortality, HIV/AIDS and other diseases, etc.

In addition to MDGs, the SDGs also include issues such as, natural resource management, sustainable consumption and production, effective institutions, good governance, the rule of law and peaceful societies.

All the countries have a shared responsibility towards achieving the SDGs’ target by 2030 and have a significant role to play locally, nationally as well as globally.

Since the adoption of the SDGs, there have been many positive initiatives.

Many countries have started incorporating the goals into their national budgets, plans/strategies and have set up coordinating structures for coherent implementation of goals across the sectors.

Leading international companies are providing their support to sustainable development by making necessary improvements for battling the current pressing global warming issue and climate emergency.

The climate change due to global warming, will have a wide impact on the environment and socio-economic sectors, including water resources, agriculture and food security, human health, terrestrial ecosystems, biodiversity and coastal zones.

The climate change mitigation and adaptation are complementary approaches for reducing risks of climate change impacts over different time scales.

These techniques looks similar, but they demonstrate very different things.

Climate change mitigation measures will avoid and/or reduce GHG emissions; whereas, the climate change adaptation techniques will take the right measures to reduce the negative effects on environment by making appropriate adjustments and changes.

Many Climate Change Events are conducted by International sustainable development companies to create awareness and implement various mitigation and adaptation techniques for reducing global warming.

Country Programme Design includes a lot of tasks such as national MRV Design, Renewable Energy Strategy, Country development Strategy, Programme Design, etc.

These tasks are carefully and strategically carried out by International energy consultant and also climate change consulting company for the development of a country sustainably.

Let us have a brief overview of one of the Country Programme Designs.

At the global level, Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) systems, are used extensively in a number of carbon pricing mechanism and trading schemes.

It provides information about the emission sources and trends, allows tracking progress towards climate change-related targets and steering the mitigation actions to achieve the target.

MRV systems are the key elements to transparency, precision and comparability on climate change information.

Industrial growth is one of the key drivers for increasing the electricity demand and energy intensity for any country.

Most of the developing countries have limited domestic energy resources, and hence are increasingly reliant on imported fossil fuels to meet their energy needs, which raise the issues of energy supply security, vulnerability to international price fluctuations and subsequent impacts on domestic energy prices.

Most of the countries in their nationally determined commitment (NDC) communication, have proposed Renewable energy investment for Renewable cogen projects as the key approaches to achieve the NDC target.

The major EE focus is on the industries and then to the nex t level on the buildings.

Energy efficiency (EE) improvements are the best and cheapest options to (i) meet the future energy demand, (ii) improve energy security, (iii) help the consumers save energy and cope up with the potential rate hike, (iv) offset carbon footprint and (v) mitigate climate change.

Countries are coming up with Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) for industries as well as buildings.

Due to the increasing population and companies in our world, the consumption levels are increasing and environment is changing and getting polluted at an alarming rate.

Environmental Evaluation or Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) facilitates identification of potential impacts and development of mitigation measures to reduce significant adverse impacts and foster sustainable development.

Environmental Evaluation is carried out in order to assess the positive and negative influences that a proposed project can create in an environment.

Number of crucial steps has to be followed during the EIA and it is very important that all these steps be completed appropriately to ensure the environmental integrity.

EIA should be conducted by experts knowing the factors that affect the environment.

Most of the projects have failed due to negligence of the above aspects.