{"id":17160,"date":"2023-11-19T05:07:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T23:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17160"},"modified":"2025-04-05T02:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T21:02:22","slug":"nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nest\/","title":{"rendered":"NEST initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About NEST initiative<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is to\u00a0promote sustainable and eco-friendly constructions in the domestic housing sector.<\/li>\n<li>It would help pave the way for individual house owners and the residential sector to adopt green building features in a big way to\u00a0help in bringing down electricity consumption, water usage and creating a healthy living space.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about the Indian Green Building Council<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is\u00a0part of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and was formed in the year 2001.<\/li>\n<li>It is India&#8217;s\u00a0Premier certification body.<\/li>\n<li>The council offers a wide array of services, which include developing new green building rating programmes, certification services and green building training programmes.<\/li>\n<li>The council also organises the Green Building Congress, its annual flagship event on green buildings.<\/li>\n<li>It is also among the 5 countries that are on the board of the World Green Building Council, discussing global issues at COP and similar global platforms.<\/li>\n<li>The rating is based on\u00a0six environmental categories, which include sustainable station facility, health, hygiene and sanitation, energy efficiency, water efficiency, smart and green initiatives and innovation and development.<\/li>\n<li>Headquarter: Hyderabad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a non-government, not-for-profit, industry led and industry managed organisation, playing a proactive role in India\u2019s development process. It is India\u2019s premier business association, with a direct membership of over 7500 organisations from the private as well as public sectors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/chennai\/igbc-launches-nest-as-part-of-the-annual-green-building-conference-to-be-held-in-chennai\/article67535879.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IGBC launches certification initiative \u2018Nest\u2019 to promote eco-friendly housing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEST initiative is to promote sustainable and eco-friendly constructions in the domestic housing sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}