SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
- Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
- Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
- Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
Activities Undertaken
- Creating initiatives in collaboration with Earth Day Network and civil society bodies of Odisha for awareness and advocacy with climate change as the primary agenda.
- Initiating plantation drives and a vehicle free campus.
- Creating a sewage treatment plant
- Using a unique steam based, award winning Mega Kitchen to prepare meals
- Using grid connected solar panels, in addition to a biogas plant, and solar water heaters.
- Reducing carbon footprint for over 40,000 people on one campus
- Rainwater harvesting
- Urban forestry has been promoted through the implementation of Miyawaki Afforestation initiative.
- The courses on sustainability and the environment are included in the curricula: Environmental Sociology and Environmental Education are taught at the university.
