Dr. Pranab J Patar

Dr. Pranab J Patar is an award-winning environment & sustainability professional with over 20 years of experience having worked with leading national and international organisations such as The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI), Earthwatch Institute, GIZ, WaterAid, Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), Centrefor Environment Education (CEE), etc. Academically, he holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Science and a Ph.D. in Management (Biodiversity & Tourism issues). Recipient of about a dozen prestigious awards including Social And Business Enterprise Responsible Award SABERA 2021, Green Future Leadership Award 2021, Change Makers of Assam Award 2020, REX Karmaveer Global Fellowship 2022 (Nominated), etc, for his environmental and humanitarian activities, Dr Pranab has led and contributed to over 50 environmental projects at the national and regional level. He is currently the Chief Executive of Delhi based environmental & social impact organisation– Global Foundation for Advancement of Environment & Human Wellness. An advocate of Nature-based Solutions, Decentralized approach to Conservation and Eco-technology for Environmental Sustainability, Dr Pranab speaks and writes regularly at various forums globally. As a capacity development specialist, he has trained over 10,000 teachers, students, NGO professionals and corporate executives on key environmental issues. A member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corp – USA, Dr Pranab sits on a number of national and international bodies including government appointed committees. Early this year, he took charge as the maiden President of the Assam Science Society’s Delhi & NCR branch and as the Secretary of TERI Alumni Association, New Delhi recently.

Our work encompasses a wide range of issues and through ground level interventions, it has been able to work towards achieving multiple SDGs:
SDG 2 Zero hunger: value addition in the agriculture sector, promotion of D-vit fortified mushroom amongst interested to grow mushroom for food as well as for the market.
SDG 4 Quality education: green skilling and environmental capacity enhancement
SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation: water resources (conservation & restoration of water bodies), We have been widely appreciated for our work on rain water harvesting for ground water aquifer recharge and have received the Water Digest Water Awards in 2020 for the same.
SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy: low-carbon energy solutions for cooking, heating and drying
SDG 8 Decent work and economic growth: Alternative livelihood training – water hyacinth based handicraft training (water hyacinth is an alien invasive species), introduction to home-stay concept and training on rural tourism needs
SDG 15 Life on Land: currently working towards the formulation of a citizen based project to promote decentralized approach in biodiversity conservation outside the protected area network in sync with the OECM concept i.e. Other Effective area-based Conservation Measure that would employ an app based monitoring of smaller bodies/village pond.