ORDEA-ICCE pact inked to combat Climate Change in Orissa.

A memorandum of understanding was signed between the Orissa Renewable Energy Development Agency (OREDA) represented by its chief executive Ajit Bharthuar and the Institute of Climate Change and Ecology (ICCE) represented by its director Pramod Kant on May 14 to work together in enabling Orissa to cope with the climate change.
Orissa, with its long coast line is particularly vulnerable to the effects and consequences of climate change that have already begun and will become more severe in the coming years. Keeping this in view (OREDA) has taken an initiative to work together with ICCE to enhance the capacity of the State to meet the challenges of climate change through promotion of research, training and creating awareness. ICCE is a Delhi-based non-profit international autonomous institution that focuses on international climate change negotiations, the effects of climate change on bio-diversity, mountains, coastal zone, mangroves, the vulnerability of food crops and the climate change mitigation opportunity that the forestry and renewable energy sectors offer.
ICCE will create centres on special areas of its expertise and accordingly open an office at Bhubaneswar to promote, coordinate and undertake various activities in eastern India. The centre will start its function from the (OREDA) office campus.