Pöyry, a leading global consulting and engineering firm focusing on energy, forest industry, infrastructure and environment, wants to enhance its engagement with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). It seeks a greater level of association with AIT experts, and will consider engaging highly qualified students as interns and for longer work placements.
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The goal of this short session is to provide information on various projects and shed light on potential collaboration between the schools and centers that exist within the Institute at the faculty, staff, and student levels.
Twenty-nine participants hailing from 17 countries participated in the Second “UN Winter School on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) in Asia and the Pacific,†which concluded at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) on 29 December 2015.
With burgeoning food demand and increasing population, sustainability, affordability and availability are the keywords in the food sector. Ensuring these is the need of the hour, particularly in the field of aquaculture. This was theme that set the tone for two workshops organized by the Aquaculture and Aquatic Resources Management (AARM) field of study at AIT’s School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD).
College of Agriculture (CoA), Maharashtra, India has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) for the launch of a Unified Bachelor-Master program. The MoA was signed by representatives of CoA and AIT on 27 January 2016.
Against the backdrop of the adoption of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations, and the signing of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change under the aegis of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Regional Resource Centre of Asia and the Pacific (RR.CAP) at AIT organized a two-day “International Forum on Sustainable Future in Asia.†Co-hosted by AIT, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) Japan, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IRSSS) of the University of Tokyo Japan, and Alliance for Global Sustainability Asia, the conference was attended by 160 participants.
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The climate change battle has to be fought in cities since it is the cities that generate the maximum Gross Development Product (GDP), emit the maximum GreenHouse Gases (GHGs), and are increasingly becoming more vulnerable. These were the remarks of Dr. Bindu Lohani, Senior Advisor to the AIT President, and former Vice President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) while delivering the Distinguished Adjunct Faculty (DAF) Seminar on “Technological Challenges and Opportunities in Addressing Climate Resilience Smart Cities†at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) on 26 January 2016.
As the host institute of the Wetlands Alliance Secretariat, the Asian Institute of Technology organized an international conference on ‘Wetlands Management: Science, Practice and Sustainable
Development’ in Siem Reap, Cambodia from 19-21 January 2016.