USEPA AWARD
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Apr 23, 2009, 11:40:10 AM4/23/09
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USEPA award for city scientist
Rajendra Shende, who heads the Ozone Action Group of United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP), on Tuesday received the prestigious
climate protection award instituted by the United States Environmental
Protection Agency (USEPA) at a function held in Washington D. C.
Shende hails from Pune and is currently working at the headquarters of
the UNEP in Paris.
The USEPA gives awards to individuals and organisations for
extraordinary and dedicated work in deriving climate benefits from
ozone layer protection activities under the Montreal Protocol. Award
winners also include managers and staff of the UNEP involved in treaty-
related compliance and clearinghouse services for developing
countries.
According to the press note issued by the USEPA from Washington,
Shende was honoured for his longstanding efforts through the
programmes of the UNEP to advocate the deployment of policies that
simultaneously protect the ozone layer and reduce climate change.
Shende’s work has helped145 developing nations through networking
activities to comply with the Montreal Protocol.
Shende has been working to improve energy efficiency in refrigeration
and air conditioning in buildings and in home appliances. His solar
refrigerator had received accolades from the then President of India
Dr A P J Abdul Kalam. He became the second expert from UNEP to win a
climate protection award after Marco Gonzales, executive secretary of
the Ozone Secretariat, who won the award last year.
An alumnus of IIT-B, Shende has been working in the area of
environment protection right from the beginning of his career. He has
also been working on the plan to convert Rahimatpur village in Satara
district into an ideal village. Shende said, "Being my ancestral
place, I owe something to Rahimatpur. That is the reason I am involved
in the development work like planting right kind of trees and making
awareness about climate change in schools. I visit the place whenever
I come to India and give inputs. The village is slowly but surely
changing."
Rajendra Shende, who heads the Ozone Action Group of United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP), on Tuesday received the prestigious
climate protection award instituted by the United States Environmental
Protection Agency (USEPA) at a function held in Washington D. C.
Shende hails from Pune and is currently working at the headquarters of
the UNEP in Paris.
The USEPA gives awards to individuals and organisations for
extraordinary and dedicated work in deriving climate benefits from
ozone layer protection activities under the Montreal Protocol. Award
winners also include managers and staff of the UNEP involved in treaty-
related compliance and clearinghouse services for developing
countries.
According to the press note issued by the USEPA from Washington,
Shende was honoured for his longstanding efforts through the
programmes of the UNEP to advocate the deployment of policies that
simultaneously protect the ozone layer and reduce climate change.
Shende’s work has helped145 developing nations through networking
activities to comply with the Montreal Protocol.
Shende has been working to improve energy efficiency in refrigeration
and air conditioning in buildings and in home appliances. His solar
refrigerator had received accolades from the then President of India
Dr A P J Abdul Kalam. He became the second expert from UNEP to win a
climate protection award after Marco Gonzales, executive secretary of
the Ozone Secretariat, who won the award last year.
An alumnus of IIT-B, Shende has been working in the area of
environment protection right from the beginning of his career. He has
also been working on the plan to convert Rahimatpur village in Satara
district into an ideal village. Shende said, "Being my ancestral
place, I owe something to Rahimatpur. That is the reason I am involved
in the development work like planting right kind of trees and making
awareness about climate change in schools. I visit the place whenever
I come to India and give inputs. The village is slowly but surely
changing."
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