World Environment Day 2020

The context:

Rarely do I get the chance to check out all the categories on my blog’s list.  On Environment Day, June 05 2020,  this year I got such a change, to find out how the debate around sustainability has Changed and the Challenges forward.  This year World Environment Day was not a normal one. Needless to remind anyone that we are experiencing one of the worst pandemics ever. In the midst of it all the recent rise has exposed the systematic inequality the world over. The pandemic did not differentiate between the developed and the developing countries as we define them.

This year:

This year, I decided to do something different altogether to mark the world environment day. It’s not one of the happiest one that I shall remember for years to come, however still important nevertheless. I was invited to be on a panel discussion by one of my oldest colleagues and collaborators in India.

According to an old saying shared by one of the panelists: A wise man takes lessons from others’ mistakes, a normal person learns from his own mistake however, a fool doesn’t even learn from his own mistake. We are likely to set on the course of not taking a lesson from our mistakes if we do not emerge stronger and resilient as a global community.

In conclusion:

Please watch and contribute.

*Agenda.
– Environmental Debate – Changes in the Problem Statement.
– Human Behaviour Changes – Impacts on Sustainability Debate.
– Changing Economics Policy Shifts & Challenges.
– Exclutionism, Politics & Wars – Emerging World.
*Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5py-K2srR4
*When: 7 PM IST, June 05 2020 on youtube.com/ballotboxindia
*Panel: Rakesh Prasad (Senior Researcher BallotboxIndia.com), Raman Kant Tyagi (Director and Environmentalist NEER Foundation) Pallavi Bharadwaj (Global Developmental Professional), Dr. Venkatesh Dutta (Environmentalist and Associate Professor BBAU), Anand Prakash (Urban Designs Expert) AECOM