About Us
In context of SAU’s mandate and its international public university status, interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change, Green Transition and Sustainability is governed through operational model that is unique, scalable and impact oriented that is trans-boundary, interdisciplinary while solidifying partnerships and collaborations in South Asia, global South and beyond.
The Centre is aimed at seamlessly aligning climate, green transition and sustainability through horizontal and vertical integration of policy, practice and partnership models. It is thus strongly pivoted on the precipice of evidence, science and data which collectively have proven beyond reasonable doubt that climate change is real and here to stay. It is also evidenced that climate change is also increasingly impacting human lives, resulting in collateral damages and livelihoods including adverse impacts on human and animal health, their lives, migration, conflict and food insecurity, all happening simultaneously, among others.
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While green transition serves as a set of tools and metrics to identify stakeholders for purposes of building inter linkages through academic programs, imparting of skills, training and capacity building interventions and public policies to effectively combat adverse climate change impacts, covering the realms of trans boundary geo-politics, environmental security and shared natural resources, supply chains and mobility.
Sustainability whereas is a business case for climate change completing the intrinsic loop while creating favorable conditions and for climate change through adaptation, mitigation and resilience mechanisms.
As the Centre is located within SAU, it would act as an academic unit imparting knowledge, skills and degrees at bachelors, masters and doctoral levels in a time bound manner while being focused on policies, practice, and partnerships at regional and Intenational levels.
It would also undertake online training, academic and executive programs with focus on educating the youth and community on climate change while supporting solutions through climate and nature actions.
It would gradually emerge as a technical and evidence-based knowledge hub working around skills, training, policy reports, forecast modelling, among others. One of the critical goals that the Centre would pursue from the start would be its industry orientation, interdisciplinary approach and technology adaptation in pursuit of its strategic plan.
The Centre is autonomous in nature, flat in structure, interdisciplinary in approach with operating aggregation model.
Member states of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) who jointly set up South Asian University (SAU) through an inter governmental agreement, 2007 under India's leadership
