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Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and environment think tank International Forum for Environment, Sustainability & Technology (iFOREST) launched the city's first Integrated Heat and Cooling Action Plan (IHCAP) to address escalating heat stress and cooling demand.
According to reports by ANI, the two-day programme, held on September 2, was developed in collaboration with the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC).
Reports said that the plan provides a detailed roadmap to tackle the combined challenges of rising temperatures, worsening humidity, the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, and rapidly increasing demand for cooling.
The IHCAP r...