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45 Iranian institutions among world’s greenest

mahla — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 21:33:43 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) –Forty-five universities of Iran have been listed among the top 1,000 green institutions worldwide, according to the University of Indonesia Green Metric overall ranking 2022.

The UI GreenMetric World University Ranking is an initiative of Universitas Indonesia which is being launched in 2010. Current criteria being used to rank universities were not giving credit to those that were making efforts to reduce their carbon footprint and thus help combat global climate change.

The universities are ranked based on setting and infrastructure, energy and climate change, waste and water management, transportation, and education worldwide.So, the world’s green universities are ranked according to six deciding factors contributing to sustainability including setting and infrastructure, energy and climate change, waste and water management, transportation, and education worldwide.

None of the Iranian universities are among the top 100 intuitions of the list, however, the University of Zanjan is ranked 107, and tops the Iranian universities. Kashan University of Medical Sciences with a rank of 156 and the University of Kashan ranking 163 are placed second and third among the national institutions.

According to the 2022 “Greenmetric” report, Wageningen University & Research is the greenest institution in the world with the highest score, followed by Nottingham Trent University, the University of Nottingham, and the University of Groningen.

In 2021, a total of 42 universities from Iran have been listed among 1,000 green institutions worldwide.

In 2020, two universities of Zanjan and Kashan were listed among the top 100 green institutes, while, in 2021, only the University of Zanjan remained among the top 100.

Performance in 2022

According to the latest edition of the best global universities ranking released by U. S. News, 52 Iranian institutions were ranked among the best institutions worldwide.

Fifty-eight universities from Iran were listed among the top universities in Asia, according to the 2022 Asia University Rankings of the Times Higher Education.

The 2022 edition of the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, based on universities’ contributions to delivering the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), listed 27 Iranian universities.

The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities 2022 has ranked 694 Iranian institutions among 30,000 top universities across the world.

Also, 59 Iranian universities have been listed among the top 3,000 institutions in the world in terms of academic quality, according to the 2021-2022 report released by University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP).

The Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Graduate Employability Rankings 2022 list has been released, which included three Iranian universities out of a total of 550 institutes worldwide that highlighted graduate employment processes.

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Air pollution across Iran shut schools, universities

reporter 1222 — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 04:48:13 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Air pollution forced the closure of schools and universities in parts of Iran on Saturday, including Tehran, which was cloaked by a cloud of toxic smog.

The decision to shut schools and universities in the capital was announced Friday by Deputy Governor Mohammad Taqizadeh, after a meeting of an emergency committee for air pollution which was widespread across Iran cities.

“Due to increased air pollution, kindergartens, preschools and schools, universities, and higher education institutes of Tehran Province will be closed,” he said.

Speaking on Saturday, Taqizadeh said all schools will be shut in Tehran Province on Sunday except for three counties.

Two soccer matches in Persian Gulf Pro League were canceled on Saturday over dangerously high levels of air pollution in Tehran Province.

Persepolis match against Nassaji Mazandaran as well as Paykan match against Tractor, which were scheduled for Saturday, were postponed.

An odd-even traffic scheme was imposed to restrict the number of private vehicles on roads of the capital city and trucks were banned outright in Tehran Province.

The young and elderly and people with respiratory illnesses were warned to stay indoors and sporting activities were suspended on Saturday, the start of the working week in the Islamic Republic.

Schools were also closed on Saturday in the northern province of Alborz and in the central province of Isfahan.

Other areas where schools were shut included the northeastern city of Mashhad, Orumiyeh city in northwestern Iran and Qom, south of Tehran.

In Tehran, average concentrations of hazardous airborne particles reached 146 micrograms per cubic meter on Saturday, according to air.tehran.ir, a government-linked website.

The pall of pollution has shrouded the sprawling city of eight million for days and is only expected to dissipate on Monday when rain is forecast.

Air pollution was the cause of nearly 30,000 deaths per year in Iranian cities, state media reported earlier this year, citing a Health Ministry official.

The problem worsens in Tehran during winter, when a lack of wind and the cold air traps hazardous smog over the city for days on end – a phenomenon known as thermal inversion.

The city’s pollution is mainly caused by heavy-duty vehicles, motorbikes, refineries, and power plants, according to a World Bank report released last year.

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Biggest Wind Farm of Iran Launches in Mianeh

reporter 1222 — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 13:12:10 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said the biggest wind farm in Iran is slated to be inaugurated in the northwestern city of Mianeh, East Azarbaijan Province, during President Hassan Rouhani’s ongoing visit to the province.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet session in Tehran on Wednesday, Ardakanian said during the president’s trip to East Azarbaijan Province, the largest wind farm in Iran, which consists of 20 turbines with a total capacity to produce 50 megawatts (MW) of electricity, will be inaugurated.

The minister further said 9,600 billion rials ($8 million) in funding has been spent on the domestically made wind farm in Mianeh.

Speaking at a press conference in December 2018, Mohammad Sadeqzadeh, the director of Iran’s Renewable Energy and Electrical Energy Efficiency Organization, a subsidiary of the Energy Ministry, said people and the private sector have made a huge investment in the renewable energy industry in recent years.

Even the “cruel sanctions” could not slow down the growth of the renewable energy industry in Iran, he said at the time, adding that local investment has now outstripped foreign investment in this sector.

Iran is seeking 5,000 megawatts of renewable energy by 2020, with more than 4,000 megawatts expected to come from wind power. The country has approximately 141 megawatts of installed wind power.

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