IIM Kozhikode launches ‘Centre for Climate Studies’

NEW DELHI: The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode has launched a ‘Centre for Climate Studies’. The CCS, which will be a Centre of Excellence at IIMK will focus on Climate Leadership, Internationalization and Management for policy Advancement, Technology and Enterprise (CLIMATE).

CCS will be “completely dedicated to training and driving the next generation of Climate leaders and ambassadors from the Global South, especially from Like Minded Developing Countries like India.”

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IIM Kozhikode has also announced the Call for Papers from researches, academia and thought leaders worldwide for the special issue on CLIMATE. The last date for submission is October 17, 2022. Submissions can be made on journals.sagepub.com/home/ksm.

The Centre is also going to organise a student competition called the “Solutions for a Carbon Neutral Campus (SCNC). The competition will challenge students to develop a baseline, ideate, develop and present answers to the question of how their campus can go Net-zero or become a Carbon Neutral Campus by 2047.

Further information will be made available on the competition website and first stage submissions are due on: August 16, 2022. Students can register for the competition on the official website of IIMK. A group of industry practitioners, policy makers and academicians would select the winners from those entries that make it to the finals.

CLIMATE programmes, competition

IIMK’s CCS activities will include:

(a) Special Issue on CLIMATE in IIMK Kozhikode Society & Management Review Journal

(b) Developing and offering short-term training programmes towards the creation of CLIMATE Ambassadors

(c) Organizing CLIMATE talks, thought exchange programmes addressing important climate related issues to appropriate national and international audiences

(d) Engage in collaborative CLIMATE related research projects – Lakshadweep Studies initiatives

(e) Driving toward Carbon neutral educational campuses, the all-India competition which is being launched called ‘Solutions for a Carbon Neutral Campus (SCNS).

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Announcing the Centre for CLIMATE Studies, Professor Debashis Chatterjee, Director IIM Kozhikode, said, “Climate change is an enormous challenge to which the international community, national policy makers and educational institutes need to proactively respond to. Institutes of eminence like IIM Kozhikode are at the forefront of real, workable solutions towards achieving the laudable climate goals that have been set at the international and national levels as we have the responsibility of fulfilling society’s needs and fueling solutions to challenges. Research, technological innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership and environmental awareness will be the foundation on which the Centre will endeavor to make a meaningful contribution towards India’s goals on achieving carbon-neutrality by 2070, as envisioned by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India.”