The Business Cost of Air Pollution
11 May 2021 Home to 21 of the world’s 30 most polluted cities, India faces a serious air pollution crisis. As the world’s fifth most polluted country, the Government’s remedial steps focus mostly on the public health implications. However, air pollution is impacting Indian businesses also. A recent report, ‘Air pollution and its impact on […]
World Environment Day 2021 – Focus on Ecosystem Restoration
05 Jun 2021 Ecosystems are the web of life on Earth and provide us with priceless benefits. People and planet are only as healthy as the ecosystems we all depend on. Our planet’s ecosystems are today threatened by climate change, nature loss, overexploitation and deadly pollution. Unless we take transformative actions to protect and restore […]
Zoonotic Diseases- The chain of transmission
22 Jun 2021 As COVID-19 continues to rattle the world, discussion around zoonotic diseases has gained prominence. Zoonotic diseases or ‘zoonoses’ are diseases that are transmitted between animals and humans due to viruses, bacteria, parasites, or fungi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L33a9fnxTiw The novel coronavirus has been widely presumed to be transferred from the animal world to humans. The […]
COVID-19 Accelerated Clean Energy Adoption
24 Jun 2021 Globally companies are getting into corporate Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with renewable energy producers. This trend of corporate PPAs was popularized by tech giants such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, AT&T who have altogether around 10 GW of PPA, but it is becoming more and more mainstream now. Corporate PPAs grew […]
Aatmanirbhar Bharat
07 Jul 2021 Mitigating the adverse effects of Climate Change has become a matter of priority globally and ‘clean energy’ will play a huge role in curbing this threat to the world. India, too, is robustly committed to this agenda and has set a mission to scale up clean, affordable, reliable, equitable, and sustainable energy […]
A Step Forward in Green Transit
19 Jul 2021 The Indian Government has set ambitious environmental targets for the next few decade and CII has been contributing to this movement by creating new benchmarks and services that facilitate seamless adoption of green concepts. IGBC is spearheading the 21st century green building movement in India. As on date, over 6,550 green building […]
Developing Sustainable Solutions for Logistics Parks and Warehouses
27 Jul 2021 Over the last decade, the logistics sector in the country has witnessed a rapid rise in demand for freight-forwarding, warehousing and supply chain infrastructure. While the upsurge in demand for logistics and warehousing certainly augurs well for the country, it is imperative for these developments to adopt green principles to optimise […]
Nature Positive Businesses
02 Aug 2021 On 22 July, the G20 Environment Ministers’ meeting in Italy ended with the ministers pledging to adopt new climate targets within the next three months with focus on three broad areas: biodiversity and protection of oceans; promoting circular economies, particularly in the fashion and textile sectors and realigning the financial system to […]
Achieving an Orderly Energy Transition
19 May 2022 The world is changing rapidly and climate change and digitization are strongly influencing this change. Energy plays a key role amid this, and people, corporates, cities and countries are at different points in terms of their transformation. If the world is to transition to limit the impact of global warming to 1.5 […]
The India Plastics Pact: Creating a circular economy for plastics in India
30 Aug 2021 The plastics problem The benefits of plastic as a material are well recognized and indisputable. Their use has increased manifold over the last sixty years and is expected to double over the next 20 years. However, their presence and persistence in the oceans, terrestrial ecosystems and urban areas the world over […]