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Ranjan Panda

Ranjan Panda, popularly known as Water Man of Odisha & Climate Crusader, was awarded with first “Green Hero” in Dec 2010 by NDTV, received it from the President of India.Recently he was also profiled as “Odisha’s Conservation Master” by Hindustan Times. Very recently, recognized as ‘Mahanadi River Waterkeeper’ by the New York based global ‘Waterkeeper Alliance'. Having about two and half decades of experience in leading several environmental conservation and human rights initiatives in the state of Odisha and in India.

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Data & Reports

Sex for water: Humanity’s new low in Libyan refugee centres

This July, as the world was preparing to celebrate eleven years of ‘Human Right to Water’- recognized by the UN – an investigation into […]

09/08/2021 / Ranjan Panda

Biodiversity

Reversing ecosystem degradation: working with city youths

Education curriculum for youth should be designed in ways that their grades are linked to conservation actions. Oxygen, an otherwise conveniently forgotten thing, has […]

08/23/2021 / Ranjan Panda

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Cities

Cities need to plan for accommodating people displaced by climate change

In the next three decades, it is expected, humanity would have turned an exclusively urban species. By then almost 80 to 90 percent of […]

03/17/2021 / Ranjan Panda

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Biodiversity

Wetlands in our climate actions: Recommendations for Country Plans

There is a growing voice that governments take into note the importance of wetlands in achieving both the mitigation and adaptation targets to meet […]

10/02/2020 / Ranjan Panda

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COVID-19

Ensuring right to water during pandemics and beyond

It is the 10th anniversary of the recognition of human rights to water and sanitation and our approaches to ensuring water and sanitation during this […]

07/27/2020 / Ranjan Panda

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