Ranjan Panda

Healthy and free-flowing rivers are essential to meet the SDGs

At a time when the world is facing an unprecedented water crisis and is almost in a climate emergency, saving…

5 years ago

A vote for nature!

In a historic move in the fight against climate change, the North Somerset council in the United Kingdom rejected a…

5 years ago

A slum after the storm!

Are urban poor prepared to face climate change disasters? On November 10, 2019, the morning after cyclone Bulbul passed through…

5 years ago

A Cape Town lesson for Chennai and other Indian cities facing ‘Day Zero’

Recently, southern India, especially Chennai witnessed one of its severest water crises in history. But, shockingly no advertisements, hoardings, announcements…

5 years ago

Let’s redefine public spaces, let’s bring back urban forests

The unprecedented heatwave condition and water scarcity situation that Indian cities faced this year has put planners on an emergency…

5 years ago

Wind from the sea is changing, cities need to change

Cities need to be well prepared to face any impending natural disaster as per their risk profile and exposure. The…

6 years ago

A message to urban voters from forests, rivers and indigenous communities

In this election season, while water supply and sanitation do figure in the list of priorities for urban voters, rivers,…

6 years ago

Time for a policy to declare ‘urban drought’ to end hardships of poor women

As the temperature rises many cities in India face a drought situation. Surprisingly, there is no policy to declare drought…

6 years ago

Climate’s ‘time bomb’ for world’s groundwater has some serious lessons for Indian cities

Extreme weather events such as droughts and heavy precipitation days are two of the major impacts of global warming. These…

6 years ago

We only have 12 years to save ourselves, let’s act fast!

Time is running out and we have to act fast to save ourselves from catastrophic climate crisis. There is a…

6 years ago