NSB’s vision and mission are inspired by NEARS’s sagacity infused by its founders. NSB accordingly envisions a society that is knowledge and skill empowered on all aspects of production and use of energy to secure a sustainable future for humanity. The School’s mission is to build capacities of all concerned stakeholders to design, implement and secure integrated benefits of energy – centric development. Academic, research and technical support for policies, plans, programmes and projects will be the mainstays of interventions on all thrust areas at the interface of energy and development. Some important thrust areas include business models to define and propel transitions, mechanisms to internalize externalities, regulations, market and institutional mechanisms. The School takes note also of such emerging areas of management as geopolitics and the dynamics of transitions that will also ensure equity and nature stewardship.