Environment & Climate Change

‘Sustainability’ is the key word in today’s development world. Right from the ill effects of industrial development on environment to the climate change issues resulting therefrom, it is clear that the world is for ‘change’ as long as its long term costs do not outweigh its immediate benefits. And this perhaps explains why Environment and Climate Change features among the 8 Millennium Development Goals of the world.

As evolving and aware organisations, we are well-aware of the importance of sanitation, environment management and climate change management issues. Our various recent projects have specific components to mitigate the adverse effects of global warming, climate change and carbon emissions.

Although a recent addition in IPE's domain, this sector has some small but critical projects that help to make this world an ecologically sustainable reality, not an economically developed mirage. To see some of our projects in this sector, please click here.
Some of the areas of IPE’s work in this sector have been:

Preparation of Detailed Project Report (DPR) for better and enhanced Solid Waste Management in several cities of India Piloting and implementing community based Solid Waste Management programmes including segregation at source; Helping states move towards better sanitation facilities especially for the poor and vulnerable groups including women; Assisting in developing strategy and implementation for Bio-medical waste management in hospitals of the health sector; Water sector issues including adapting to climate change issues and ensuring availability of potable water in the villages; Helping states / countries progress industrially with zero net carbon balances i.e. to build an ecologically sustainable industrial environment; Energy management including conservation, alternative sources and reduction of waste; E-governance, M-Governance and paperless office in the public sector to reduce paper wastage; Integrating climate change issues in the development agenda of various governments / agencies;

A key feature of this sector is its cross-cutting nature of activities which require us to work with various government department. And this is one of the core strengths of IPE. With integration through its health, urban and rural sectors, it is able to have the right leverage to make change possible in order to have better and more environmentally sustainable governance, projects and results.