Energy, Environment and Climate Change

Everyone should be fully committed to reduce carbon footprint which will definitely reduce Global warming.

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Energy and Environment Centre providing Skill Development and Training with Energy Certification Courses

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.

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Save planet - EECC Case Studies & Energy and Climate Change Blogs

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. One of the ways of creating awareness is by posting various Energy and Climate Change Blogs.

 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. This happens due to increased use of electric and electronic appliances such as air conditioners and use of private cars as mode of transport. The use and throw mind-set with no recycling also means that more energy and emissions are involved in getting raw materials and processing them every time for manufacture of products. For example, pet bottles, bags, clothes, etc.

 Writing blogs related to Energy, Environment and Climate change (EECC), illustrating what steps taken by government and international organizations, and how each individual plays a very important role in tackling global warming needs to be illustrated in various ways and posted in multiple social mediums. Also word of mouth helps a lot, each parent’s duty is to educate their children on this issue and make them lead a sustainable life. Guidelines on how each individual can contribute to carbon footprint reduction can also be detailed in blogs, articles, stories and posts in various medium.

 Also companies relating to Energy, Environment and Climate change should publish various EECC Case Studies to showcase their insights and project implementations. This can also be posted in various social media, and wide awareness can be created on how international organizations are contributing to the society and how we should support them accordingly.

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Climate Change Videos, Renewable Cogen Pictures and Carbon Emission Report of International Organizations

There is lot of awareness created on the ways individuals can reduce their carbon footprint. 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. This can be obvious in case of shopping habits. 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.

 These habits also involve the behaviours in workplace, such as switching off lights when not in use, using day light as much possible and carpooling to the offices. It is interesting to note that the food habits too contribute to the climate change. Eating fresh foods as opposed to canned products are relatively less carbon emissive. Also, plant based food is less GHG emissive than animal products, because livestock farming releases methane emissions.

 Overall, there is yet little awareness in the mainstream media, government propaganda and school text books about how change in individual lifestyle and behaviours can bring change in global GHG emissions. More and more education and awareness must be created in this regard.

 International Organizations publish various Climate Change Videos, Renewable Cogen Pictures and Carbon Emission Report regularly to overcome the above issue.

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Importance of Company Policy, Social Responsibility and Business Carbon Footprint Reduction

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. When all these tasks are carried out in a company it will definitely lead to Business Carbon footprint Reduction.

 Individual Social responsibility is very much important than company’s social responsibility. Let’s see the importance of Individual Social responsibility. The use of non-motorized transport or avoidance of transport is an important responsibility of individuals. As much as an individual reduces to travel that much of air pollution and GHG emission can be saved. This can be obvious in case of shopping habits. 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.

 These habits also involve the behaviours in workplace, such as switching off lights when not in use, using day light as much possible and carpooling to the offices. It is interesting to note that the food habits too contribute to the climate change. Eating fresh foods as opposed to canned products are relatively less carbon emissive. Also, plant based food is less GHG emissive than animal products, because livestock farming releases methane emissions.

 Overall, there is yet little awareness in the mainstream media, government propaganda and school text books about how change in individual lifestyle and behaviours can bring change in global GHG emissions. More and more education and awareness must be created in this regard.

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Overview of Business Development and Valuation, Project Due Diligence and Municipal Solid Waste Management

Business development and valuation is a crucial task which is required during execution of any project or before investing in a project. Project due diligence is one of the activity of Business valuation, which involves various detailed analysis of the project to ensure whether it is worthwhile to invest in the project.

 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. The level of risks also needs to be evaluated. Existing commitments and activities of the stakeholders on way forward will help evaluate and assess the risk level.

 Municipal solid waste management is a big nightmare in the developing countries. In 1990s, not enough attention was given for the management of MSW in the developing countries. 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.

 These kinds of projects started emerging only after early 2000s in the developing countries due to increasing environment concerns of MSW disposal and due to Kyoto Protocol. The countries started allocating more funding for the management of MSW. Engineered landfill options were introduced to effectively create and manage new landfill sits. In the existing landfill sites, utilization of landfill gas to generate electricity were demonstrated. Tests were carried out by drilling holes to identify the potential of extracting and producing electricity using the landfill gas. A number of such project initiatives took place in Southeast Asia after Kyoto Protocol.

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Country Programme Design by climate change consulting company and International energy consultant

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. For any nation, establishing sectoral level MRV systems would provide guidance to the ministries and other stakeholders in the respective fields, in carrying our various activities like, drafting policies, setting benchmarks and targets, designing national plans and programs, etc. It is essential that the data used in the MRV system should be more accurate, conservative and is regularly updated at definite intervals.

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Overview of Renewable and Clean Energy, Energy efficiency development and Renewable energy Finance

30 years back people started using 200 kW capacity wind mills to generate electricity using wind energy. Now, 4 MW capacity wind turbines are very common. 8 MW capacity wind mills are being tried in Europe. R & D is going on for even much bigger capacity. Off-shore wind mills are getting more and more popular. Investment cost of wind power generation also came down significantly. This miracle happened in solar PV based electricity generation also. 30 years back, the investment cost for solar PV based power plant was above 2,000 USD/kW. Now, it is as low as 800 USD/kW. It can go even lower. Thanks to mass manufacturing of solar panels. The efficiency also considerably increased.

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? Difficult to believe, yes? Money infused into renewable energy market due to Climate Change is the answer. Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1997 and it made miracles in Energy efficiency development. While the whole world was struggling to see a light at the end of tunnel, Paris Agreement came for our rescue. Of course, we experienced lot of starting troubles, well, at the end, now it looks like we are back to the driver seat to control Climate Change negative impacts. This is going to give big boost to Renewable Energy Finance also. Let’s be ready to join hands together to defeat the Climate Change monster.

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Importance of Renewable cogen projects and Renewable energy investment in offsetting carbon footprint

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. Energy efficiency and Conservation laws are also being proposed and mandated.

Agro industries can remain competitive only if they emphasise on energy efficiency and reduce energy cost for processing. In this aspect, several countries have already come up with energy conservation acts. Apart from agro industries, importance is given for energy conservation in buildings and household sectors. To encourage energy conservation, energy labels are given for equipment such as TV, refrigerator, air-conditioners, etc. In some countries, incentive schemes and special funds are also available to promote energy conservation.

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Importance of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sustainability reporting and sustainable living

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. These 17 SDGs are interdependent and have 169 targets and 232 approved indicators to measure the compliance. 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. Particularly, the private sectors have begun to move away from their business-as-usual models to eco-friendly businesses by adopting the goals in their policies/strategies and sustainability reporting.

SDGs will act as a compass, aligning the countries’ plans with their global commitments. To achieve the SDGs target, the countries will require substantial resources, sustainable development policies/plans, financing strategies, etc. The engagement of governments, civil society, the private sector and other stakeholders will effectively contribute to the realisation of the SDG goals.

Sustainable living is nothing but living a socially responsible life by following some good habits such as saving water, avoiding plastics, minimalizing resources, using eco-friendly products,  reducing possible emissions (less travel, low electricity usage), planting trees and encouraging social responsibility and volunteering and creating awareness about SDGs.

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The impact of our lifestyle and behavior changes on carbon footprint reduction

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. This happens due to increased usage of electric and electronic appliances such as air conditioners as well as usage of private cars as the mode of transport.

In today’s world, a lot of awareness must be created among the individuals about the ways to reduce their carbon footprints. 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. It is interesting to note that the food habits too contribute to the climate change. Eating fresh foods as opposed to canned products are relatively less carbon emissive. In addition, switching off lights when not in use, using day light as much as possible and carpooling will also help in reducing CFP.

Above are just few simple guidelines which can be practiced in our day-to-day life for reducing CFP. Even though they look simple, when followed by many, they create a huge impact by making the world a much better place for all the species to live in. Also, we can leverage free carbon footprint calculator, play around by changing different options in order to understand how our daily lifestyle impacts on CO2 emission. So, get ready to make a small change which can prevent climate change!

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Role of International sustainable development companies & Energy and Environment Companies in reducing Global Warming

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.

Global warming is unequivocal across the globe. 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.

To fight against climate change, the international community is taking action through mitigation and adaptation techniques. 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.

The effective implementation of climate change mitigation and adaptation measures will require a transformative energy and environmental policies, action plans and substantial financial resources to lead towards a low carbon economy. Currently, the countries with different capacities are facing various challenges in implementing the policies and action plans. However, in cooperation with the international communities, the countries are building their capacity, enabling resources and laying down foundation for a sustainable development.

The Energy and Environment Companies work together with International sustainable development companies to reduce the negative impact on environment and prevent climate change adverse effects. Clean and Renewable Energy Projects development is also one of the key areas they work on, as switching to renewable energy will reduce usage of fossil fuels which in turn will reduce carbon emission to a greater extent. County governments are also working along with these companies in implementing various mitigation and adaptation techniques in order to reduce global warming.

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Environmental Evaluation and Climate Change Management

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. Each country has its own requirements on EIA for energy related projects.

Environmental Evaluation is carried out in order to assess the positive and negative influences that a proposed project can create in an environment. These influences are analysed through collecting primary and secondary data about the environmental conditions in that area, from the project site.

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. Stakeholder consultations should be done at the earliest, when the project is proposed and should be presented with transparency. In general, EIA needs to be presented with reliable and authentic information, justifying the establishment of the project. Most of the projects have failed due to negligence of the above aspects. Project proponents are responsible for the preparation of EIA report with the help of external consultants.

Due to Climate change there may be unpredictable heatwaves, flood and droughts at frequent rates. Climate Change Management is implemented by various International organizations, which plays a vital role in mitigating climate change and preventing the frequent natural disasters to some extent. Climate Change Management is a vast area which includes Green House Gas (GHG) Accounting, Business Carbon Management, GHG Emission reduction, Carbon Footprint Offset, Carbon benchmarking, Carbon Compliance, Climate Change Policy, New Market Mechanism, Adaptation Advisory, Paris Alignment, Carbon Trading, Establishment of carbon Foundation. These services are provided by some of the International organizations to mitigate climate change adverse effects.

We cannot leave the responsibility of mitigating environment and climate change effects to organizations completely. It is the responsibility of every one of us to reduce our impact on environment so that societies will be made more resilient to changes.