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Centre in final stages of notifying emissions trading scheme
Posted on 01 Mar, 2023 12:17 PMCentre in final stages of notifying emissions trading scheme
![Government plans to give energy efficiency targets to sectors (Image: RawPixel)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-03/building_emissions.jpg?itok=mg1xqsdy)
Women are pioneering inclusive water and sanitation services in urban poor settlements
Posted on 28 Feb, 2023 07:16 PMAcross the world and in India, collective organisations run by and representing women have emerged as important platforms for demanding basic amenities like water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure and services.
![Women-led community-based groups connect with the urban local body for issues related to solid waste collection and accessing desludging services for on-site sanitation systems. (Image: CPR)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-02/lead%20image%202%20of%20IMG-20220525-WA0026.jpg?itok=-NJVH6Wg)
A successful model of integrated farming system in Koraput
Posted on 03 Dec, 2022 07:23 AMRapid population growth is leading to land fragmentation and reducing the amount of cultivable land available to owners. This trend of declining land ownership combined with natural disasters is reducing the viability and sustainability of agriculture.
![Mangaraj's farm is a model for the region (Image: Tripati Khura)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp-images/mangaraj.jpg?itok=hSKdOIhh)
Young woman's work is impacting Odisha villages
Posted on 28 Oct, 2022 01:36 PMThe sound of a specific cycle bell deep inside the jungles of Kashinathpur village in Angul (Odisha) brings vibes of joy. Everybody recognises that bell because it belongs to 24-year-old Urmila Bahera who sometimes cycles to villages as far as 15 kilometres, braving bumpy roads, streams and elephants.
![Urmila engaging children on local bird diversity (Image: FES)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp-images/Urmila%20engaging%20children%20on%20local%20bird%20diversity.jpg?itok=EXNRtjLp)
Odisha’s untapped renewable energy potential
Posted on 17 Sep, 2022 04:10 PMThe International Forum for Environment, Sustainability & Technology (iFOREST) organized a major conference last month in Bhubaneshwar to start a dialogue on Odisha’s new Renewable Energy (RE) policy for 2022-30. Odisha’s present RE Policy was introduced in 2016, and is set to lapse at the end of 2022.
![Experts stressed on the need to remove barriers related to land, procedure, institutional capacity and finance, to attract investments in the sector (Image: Aiseinau, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp-images/Saul%C4%97s_elektrin%C4%97.jpg?itok=rWNqTyVK)
Hidden treasure: Adivasi’s traditional food diversity
Posted on 19 Jun, 2022 01:15 PMOften overlooked in food security policies, indigenous uncultivated wild food and traditional crops is a major source of dietary diversity for tribal communities since millennia.
Menstrual hygiene management: Looking beyond WASH
Posted on 19 Apr, 2022 11:47 AMManaging menstruation, with dignity
More than 300 million girls and women between the ages of 15 and 49 are menstruating everyday. Managing menstruation hygienically and with dignity is crucial for health and well being of women.
![Women in Deogarh, Odisha (Image Source: Ekta Parishad via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-04/Women_in_Deogarh_morning%2C_Orissa%2C_India.jpg?itok=ObFzkQRt)
Eastern India highly vulnerable to climate change, says study
Posted on 23 Mar, 2022 10:46 AMClimate data gathering at the district level is essential for risk planning, developing coping strategies, and adaptation, especially considering that the impacts of climate variability, climate change, and extreme events are visible globally and in India.
![Climate projections for the eastern states at the district level for the period 2021–2050 (the 2030s) indicate a warmer and wetter future (Image: Save the Children)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-03/cyclone.jpg?itok=lc3kL9b-)
Women at the frontline of climate change adaptation
Posted on 19 Mar, 2022 04:23 PMKalyani Dash, Soudamini Rout, and Gita Rani Satpathy are three women from Odisha w
![Kalyani Dash works with 150 households in the village directly and trains them on chemical-free farming techniques, water secure crop production, efficient water use in agriculture for a sustainable farming future as well as kitchen and nutrition gardening. (Image: FES)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-03/fes1.jpg?itok=63xQK98M)
Process of obtaining green nod simplified to allow ease of doing business: Govt
Posted on 05 Jan, 2022 01:04 PMEnvironment Ministry reports reduction in environmental clearance time from 150 to 90 days
![Ease of doing business at the cost of environment (Source: IWP Flickr Photos) Photo for representation only.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-01/9004427505_74322c1111_c.jpg?itok=hQK4G6_R)