Environmental management is a wide, expanding and rapidly evolving field and the environmental concerns are increasing on the agenda of government, private sector, nongovernmental agencies and citizens. The integration of environmental concerns, planning and management, policy-making and public involvement is required for sustainable and equitable development. The need is to develop effective environmental policies, plans and programmes; and the full integration of environmental, climate change, carbon mitigation, carbon intensity and economic issues into sustainable development and project planning. In the times to come, we must remain very serious and alert in complying with the stringent environmental norms and go much beyond compliance. The programme is being planned to bring together the resources available, environmental issues and its management on key variables that relate to employee, society, regulators and all stakeholders etc. The tentative programme profile is given below.
At the end of the programme, the participants shall be able to:
Define the prevailing Environmental concerns & norms and insight into futuristic legislations & capacity building requirements
State the strategic roles and strategic components of their current roles in managing the Environment and reducing the emissions including CO2
Describe and participate in decision making and defining the future environmental action plan and environmental policy for their respective station/project
Understand the technological developments in the field of pollution controls & carbon mitigation
Strengthen not only for complying with the environmental norms but also go much beyond compliances.
Profile
Legal framework: Environmental laws and conventions
Regional EIA and carrying capacity based development planning & area wide environmental quality management, Concept and methodologies for Source Apportionment Studies
Environmental policy and economics: economic value to services etc.
UNFCC/IPCC, Kyoto Protocol, CDM potential in India and in private sector, Concept & process of CDM, IPCC assessment reports, Beyond Copenhagen and its implications on Power Stations, International treaties, Asia pacific partnership, GHG emission (direct or indirect), Tools for estimation
Carbon Capture & Sequestration (CCS) with respect to Power Plants
Pollution tracking techniques including CO2 and their implementation in Indian context, Automation and real time monitoring of Environmental Parameters and sharing of data in public domain
Presentations by participants on learning, exceptions and further requirements
Methodology
Lectures, discussions and case studies
Who May Attend
The Programme is meant only for executives working in Environment Management Group / functions from NTPC and other organizations.
