BHU researcher selected as Nexus Assessment fellow for IPBES of UN

Pradeep Kumar Dubey has been selected for the nexus assessment that will be prepared over the period of three years from the initial start of the assessment.

Banaras Hindu University has announced that a senior research fellow has been selected for the globally reputed Nexus Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services (IPBES) of the United Nations. Pradeep Kumar Dubey has been selected for the nexus assessment that will be prepared over the period of three years from the initial start of the assessment.

Pradeep Dubey is pursuing his PhD with Dr PC Abhilash and Prof GS Singh. This Assessment will address the interlinkages among biodiversity, climate change, adaptation and mitigation including relevant aspects of the energy system, water, food, and health and will consider holistic approaches based on different knowledge systems. The assessment will assess the state of knowledge, including indigenous and local knowledge, on past, present and possible future trends in these multi-scale interlinkages, with a focus on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people, to inform the development of policies and actions.

The assessment will highlight thresholds, feedback and resilience in nexus linkages, as well as opportunities, synergies and trade-offs between different response options. The assessment, across all nexus elements, will evaluate the role of the most important indirect and direct drivers of change, the role of both formal and informal institutions, and the impacts of the patterns of production, supply and consumption (including telecoupling) on nature, nature’s contributions to people and good quality of life. 

Earlier, BHU's history professor had received a grant from the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) to study more than 2,000 years old Punchmark coins, considered India’s earliest coins. Amit Kumar Upadhyaya, assistant professor in the Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Faculty of Arts at BHU, will be scrutinizing the coins that have been found either by excavation by the Archaeological Society of India (ASI) or procured from personal collections.

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