Climate Change and Disaster Mitigation Activities

University engages students, faculty, and other stakeholders for greater environmental and climate awareness through academic networking with all possible stockholders including government agencies, civil service organizations, academic institutions, research organizations and NGOs. The mode of action varies as per need which includes inhouse or onsite operations including capacity building, skilling, training programs, awareness drive, academic seminars, and workshops. Although the COVID lockdown restricted operations substantially, virtual mode gave reach out scope.

Capacity building and Skilling: University conducts LEED Lab program for in-house students in area of green Building design and framework in collaboration with USGBC and GBCI for students of Architecture, Planning, Engineering, and Environmental Science.

Amity University Haryana conducts Suryamitra Skill Development Program, funded by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy for local community students who have completed ITI or a diploma in electrical, electronic, or related fields to create skilled manpower required for the government’s ambitious NDC in solar energy sector by 2030 as Paris Climate Change.

Amity University Haryana houses a dedicated ‘AYUSH-Amity Herbal and Medicinal Plant Distribution Centre’ in collaboration with Ministry of Ayush, Government of India. The center produces herbal plants and local medicines with a view to create public awareness and boost the scientific efforts to make India, a world leader in Ayurvedic, Unani, Naturopathy, Homeopathic and Siddha health care. This conducts capacity building and skilling programmes for the benefit of local farmers and provides vast opportunities for agricultural growth.

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Climate disaster cooperation: Amity University Haryana strives to function as live ‘laboratory of sustainability and incorporates all possible sustainability measures in its action including awareness and capacity building for climate change-related disasters. University is developing robust academic networking with agencies working on climate disasters at regional and global levels and conducted several knowledge sessions, and training programs of regional and global climate disaster issues in past with the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), the Government of Haryana and the United Nations University on the urban flood, school safety, disaster mitigation etc. Amity University Haryana recently conducted several programmes directly addressing climate action under following headings:

• FDP on Universities & Colleges Leading by Example in Attainment of SDG’s: Role of Teachers conducted by experts from UNEP. IIT, Garmin Bank, TISS, AIU and Industry clusters.
• Educational Visit to District Town Planning Office Gurugram to understand planning aspects of disaster management in changing climate.
• A week-long exercise of Multi-Sensor Measurements of Rural Air Quality during Diwali 2022 to understand the air pollution disaster.
• The Future of Weather, Climate, and Water across Generations (Webinar: Indian Meteorological Department (IMD)
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Tree Plantation Drive: University maintains natural vegetation-dominated green cover in the campus. As per land use planning 2/3rd area is the green cover which includes the open area (lawn, farming land etc) and tree cover while 1/3rd is the build-up area. Tree plantations in collaboration with NGOs are the most celebrated activity here in Amity on every occasion. The two-tier plantation has been done along the campus boundary. University also maintains all support to sustain the plantation including a nursery, a functional greenhouse, a composting unit to provide organic manure, and trained manpower to carry out horticultural work.

Amity University Haryana mandates outcome-based education through structured teaching learning and value addition through training, workshop, seminar, symposium, conference and many awareness exercises. University conducts such capacity building and learning activities on regular basis by engaging all its stakeholders including community as well. A list of activities in area of climate action is appended below:

Climate Action Activity 2022-23