Kamal Meattle

Corporate leader with comprehensive background in governance and strategic oversight, ready to bring expertise to new role. Proven track record of steering companies towards growth and operational excellence, with focus on fostering collaborative team environments and achieving key objectives. Renowned for effective decision-making and adept at adapting to evolving business landscapes.

• Kamal is an Executive Council member of the CII-IGBC, an Indo-German member of the Delhi Committee of the CII, a member of the National CII Environment Committee & Chair of the Northern Region of the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce.
• Kamal is a Former: 1. Governing Board member of IIT Delhi 2. Chair AICTE, Northern Region 3. Board member, Navodaya Vidyalaya 4. National President of the Indo American Chamber of Commerce 5. National President of the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce.

• Climate Change - increasing CO2 is also a pollutant for the human brain www.thecogfxstudy.com by Harvard University, USA.
• Kamal Meattle, Chair Emeritus of Paharpur Business Centre (PBC), is an environmentalist at heart.
• Kamal’s conviction regarding environmental issues, climate change, health & well-being, and energy efficiency is implicit.
• Built to comply with the Government Design, PBC is the first retrofit office building in India to achieve USGBC LEED Platinum Certification.
• PBC and its services are certified to ISO 9001, 14001, 2200, and OHSAS 18001 and are a signatory to the UN Global Compact and WEP.
• It is the first in India to feature a LEED Arc, which displays the building's performance in real-time and enables comparison with others.
• It is also the first office building in India to be rated Platinum for Health and Wellbeing for its occupants by the CII-IGBC.
• It is a BEE 5-star rated building and is currently operating at 17 Whr/hr/sqm.
• It was the first building outside Australia to get NABERS certification for its exceptional indoor air quality, acoustics, lighting, and thermal comfort.
• It became the first Healthy and Sustainable operational building to get the CETEC 5 Palm Rating.
• The Pollution Control Board of India rated PBC as one of the healthiest buildings in Delhi.
• PBC is well-known for its exceptional indoor air quality, security, and improvement of Human Productivity, using biotechnology.
• It generates its own fresh air indoors, utilising over 7,000 specially selected indoor plants and advanced technology.
• Www.pbcnet.com
• He spoke about ‘How to grow fresh air’ using three common plants. Over four million people have viewed this TED Talk.
• Http://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_on_how_to_grow_your_own_fresh_air.html
• This has also been reported in the New York Times. Please click on the link given below to view it.
• Pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/teds-greatest-hits/
• Harvard University has found that CO2 is a pollutant for the human brain. Reducing CO2 indoors by diluting it with clean, treated ambient air may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease while also enhancing the cognitive abilities of occupants.
• Please refer to a study carried out by Harvard University at www.thecogfxstudy.com. The study corroborates the PBC experience, where one found that staying indoors at PBC increased one's blood oxygen level by 1%, with a probability of 42%.
• Harvard’s study demonstrates that cognitive abilities can increase by as much as 299% when specific conditions related to PM2.5, CO2, and TVOCs are met in an Indoor space.
• It is important for success in life.
• In this stressful world, it will give everyone an opportunity to be able to breathe mountain fresh air in one’s bedroom, where one spends ¼ of one's life, to relax and think clearly, to learn to let go of frustrations and worries by becoming positive towards life
• Kamal has co-authored a book published by Juggernaut on 'How to Grow Fresh Air,' that offers a simple solution to Pollution at home and how to remain healthy and improve one’s cognitive ability to full potential. The Book was translated and published in Hindi as ‘Taazee Hawa Kaise Ugaen’ by Vani Prakshan, New Delhi.
• He has been personally trained by Nobel Laureate, Mr Al Gore, to deliver his climate message through the ‘Inconvenient Truth’ presentation.
• He is a Trustee of The Climate Reality Project, established by Nobel Laureate Al Gore, in India.
• Www.climatereality.org.in
• Breathe Easy is a successful startup incubated by PBC, with a comprehensive reference list that helps others implement solutions to improve indoor air quality while reducing energy usage at an affordable cost. It won an international competition organised by the Asian Development Bank in Manila in 2022 for IAQ/ Energy Efficiency in Buildings.
• Www.breatheeasylabs.com
• Founder of NGO’s
• He founded NGOs, including Save The Tree Organisation (STO), Stop Two wheelers on Polluting (STOP) and the Nehru Place Greens Society (NPG)
• Initiatives in Courts:
• He filed a successful PIL, resulting in a direction from the Hon'ble Supreme Court to establish a separate Petrol dispenser at all outlets in India with a premix of 2T oil and Petrol for two-wheelers, thereby reducing air pollution from oil.
• He led a successful campaign resulting in an order from the Hon’ble Supreme Court to reduce the benzene content in petrol from 5% to 1%, meeting international standards.
• A campaign to not allow felling of over 2,000 trees in Nehru Place, by an order of the Hon’ble Delhi High Court.
• Currently
• He is focusing on the issue of global warming and addressing problems related to corporations and Children to find solutions.
• Kamal has assisted in the Formation of the ‘Forum for Concerned Teenagers’ www.sustainablebharat.org
• The credit for this idea goes to the Late Mr Fali Nariman, who suggested it to him.
• This Forum requests that lawmakers require all Municipalities to declare their carbon budgets annually, along with their Financial Budgets.
• TERI supports it, so does the Climate Reality Project - India, the Dr Prem Jain Memorial Trust (PJMT), and the Mobius Foundation.
• The initiative has found wide acceptance.
• Raising Funds to support The Climate Realty Project – India, which is very actively working at present in Odisha, Maharashtra and J&K – with youngsters for greening of schools, water harvesting, planting, and looking after trees, value for waste and setting up PV panels.
• Note: Some key IIC members are known to me/ my family:
• Members of the Board of Trustees include Shri Shyam Saran and Dr Meenakshi Gopinath.
• Executive Committee: Shri K. Padmanabhaiah; the Advisory Council: Dr Deepak Nayyar, Justice Rohinton Nariman, Ms Geeta Chandran and Shri Ravi Singh.
• Editorial Board: Dr Karan Singh.
• Most have already signed off on the recommendations for the permitted number of persons, and it is a little late to rush some of them to do so. My fault
• Using the facilities of IIC: My wife and I have been using it for the past five decades.
• In the early 1970s, I was the President of the Delhi Junior Chamber and had most of our meetings at the IIC.
• Our family home on Prithviraj Road is within walking distance of IIC, and one can see the buildings during a morning walk in Lodhi Gardens.
• It will be easier to interact with other members as a member of IIC.
• I have missed using the Library at IIC and have also been unable to attend some programs when my driver is not present, especially at the Kamala Devi Complex Multi-Purpose Hall, due to parking issues.
• I will be incredibly happy to see IIC getting a Griha Green Certification and an IGBC Net Zero certification. I am aware that IIC is working hard towards renewable energy and energy efficiency, but it needs to do more for IAQ and to get a third-party certification. I was able to persuade Ambassador Bhaswati Mukherjee, former Chair of IHC, to get it.

Trustee, The Climate Reality Project - India, set up by Nobel Laureate Al Gore