Environmental Sustainability by Ms. Chithra Ravi

Why does this topic matter? Which challenges can be dealt with more effectively after attending this session?

Climate change being a very important phenomenon and its impact being felt across the World, every individual needs to understand how their resource consumption patterns and lifestyle affects nature. How can we as individuals contribute to environmental protection and prevent climate change is what can be effectively learnt from the session

Who should attend? 

Relevant to office type work environment, Employees with science and engineering background

What are the expected practical takeaways for the attendees ?

Understand concepts and importance of environmental sustainability, energy & carbon emissions, water management, waste management & responsible consumerism & its application in day-to-day life

Key areas of expertise of Ms. Chithra Ravi:

• Environmental sustainability & climate change, including identifying and facilitating registration
of clean development mechanism (CDM) projects at UNFCCC (United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change) across various industrial sectors
• Environmental data validation, supporting external assurance process, and working towards
sustainability related external disclosures (CDP, GRI reports)
• Implementation of ISO 14001 (Environmental Management Systems) and ISO 45001
(Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems) in IT industry and conducting periodic
internal audits
• Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) due diligence reviews during mergers and acquisitions of
companies
• Environmental modeling including air quality and ground water modeling using US EPA and
USGS models for highly polluting industries to check the environmental impacts of industrial
discharges/ emissions and, storm water modeling using US EPA’s models for reservoir siltation
projects
• Conducted Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) and Risk assessments of several
infrastructural projects including ports and harbours and, was involved in preparing the EIA
manual for ports and harbours as a part of World Bank project.
• Conducted several trainings on environmental sustainability, health, and safety topics