UN Sustainable Development Goals

By linking ecosystem restoration with secure, nature-dependent livelihoods and access to ecosystem-service payments, the project strengthens economic resilience and reduces vulnerability among forest- and coast-dependent households.

Solar cold storage and biogas units for farmers help reduce post-harvest losses, improve food security, and support climate-resilient agricultural practices.

Reliable clean energy for health centres improves service delivery, cold-chain reliability for medicines, and overall health outcomes — while reduced indoor air pollution from biogas use supports community well-being.

Solar-powered schools and anganwadis ensure uninterrupted learning environments, improved digital access, and safer educational infrastructure — particularly in energy-deficient regions.

The initiative transforms campuses into living sustainability labs, embedding environmental literacy, climate education, and practical sustainability skills into everyday student life — beyond classroom learning.

By prioritising women's leadership in clean-energy enterprises and community energy management, the project promotes women's economic empowerment, participation in decision-making, and access to non-traditional livelihood opportunities.

Eco-Livelihood Training Centres prioritise women's participation and leadership, enabling women to access skills, resources, and income-generating opportunities in conservation-based enterprises.

Project Navya Urja directly advances SDG 7 by enabling access to reliable, affordable, and modern energy services in rural, coastal, and tribal regions. Through decentralised solar microgrids and biogas systems, the project reduces energy poverty while promoting clean-energy adoption in underserved communities.

The initiative creates green livelihoods by training women and youth as Urja Sakhis and Urja Saathis, supporting local solar entrepreneurship, maintenance, and repair services. This enhances income security while building a skilled green workforce.

The project creates dignity-based, green livelihoods by supporting nature-linked enterprises such as honey, bamboo products, eco-tourism, and herbal produce — ensuring sustainable income opportunities for rural and indigenous communities.

By working with panchayats and municipalities on energy planning and low-carbon practices, Project Navya Urja strengthens inclusive, resilient, and sustainable local governance systems.

Nature-based solutions implemented under the project enhance climate resilience of rural and peri-urban settlements, protecting communities from environmental degradation and climate-induced disasters.

Plastic-responsible campuses contribute to cleaner, healthier urban and peri-urban environments by reducing the waste burden on municipal systems and preventing plastic pollution in public spaces and waterways.

Sustainable harvesting, value chains, and ecosystem stewardship promote responsible use of natural resources while maintaining ecological balance.

Project Bank of Plastic directly advances SDG 12 by promoting responsible consumption patterns and circular waste-management systems within educational institutions. By eliminating single-use plastics and ensuring segregation and recycling at source, the initiative strengthens sustainable material use and zero-waste practices.

By replacing fossil-fuel–based energy with renewable solutions, the project contributes to climate-change mitigation and adaptation. Climate-resilient energy infrastructure for farms, schools, and community institutions strengthens local capacity to respond to climate shocks and extreme weather events.

By promoting biodiversity-based carbon sinks and nature-based solutions, the project advances climate-change mitigation and adaptation. Restored forests and mangroves reduce climate risks such as floods, erosion, and extreme weather impacts on vulnerable communities.

By preventing plastic leakage into landfills and the environment, the project reduces greenhouse-gas emissions associated with plastic production, burning, and unmanaged disposal. Climate education integrated with hands-on waste action enables students to understand and respond to climate change at a behavioural level.

Through mangrove restoration and coastal conservation linked to fisherfolk livelihoods, the project supports the protection and sustainable management of coastal and marine ecosystems — enhancing fish breeding grounds and shoreline resilience.

By ensuring zero plastic leakage from campuses, the project helps protect rivers, lakes, and marine ecosystems from plastic pollution — supporting healthier aquatic biodiversity.

Project Saahas Taru directly contributes to SDG 15 by restoring degraded forests, watersheds, hills, and biodiversity-rich landscapes through native-species planting and community protection. The initiative strengthens sustainable land use and ecosystem regeneration while conserving habitats and biodiversity.

Reduced plastic dumping protects soil health, terrestrial biodiversity, and green spaces around educational institutions and surrounding communities.

The project is built on multi-stakeholder collaboration involving local governments, community institutions, civil-society organisations, and clean-energy practitioners — to scale decentralised renewable-energy solutions.

Project Saahas Taru leverages partnerships with local communities, panchayats, civil society, and climate-finance mechanisms — including PES and carbon-credit frameworks — to scale conservation impact.

The initiative relies on partnerships between schools and colleges, youth groups, recycling enterprises, municipal bodies, and verified waste-collection partners — to scale impact and strengthen circular-economy ecosystems.