Managing Water Resources for Sustainable Development
29 Sep 2019 The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), recognising the looming national water crisis, has acknowledged that about 600 million Indians are already affected by it. It has also estimated that 21 Indian cities will run out of groundwater by 2020. And with the World Bank predicting that global warming could affect India’s food […]
Making India Clean – Industry Mission under Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan
01 Oct 2019 “If we do not keep our backyards clean, our Swaraj will have a foul stench.” Mahatma Gandhi For the Father of our Nation, sanitation was critically important. His views and teachings on sanitation, a part of the Gandhian way of sustainable living, were targeted at both individuals and society. With this as […]
Nano Black Gold Can Fight CO2 Emissions and Purify Water
12 Oct 2019 The air we breathe and the water we drink is under stress. Rapid industrialisation and deforestation have affected both these natural resources. Vehicular and industrial emissions are adding to the pollution levels, notably carbon dioxide CO2, which is affecting health. Climate change has a ripple effect and as nations grapple internationally with […]
Manage stubble to control air pollution: Recycling it can reduce weedicide use by 70% and water use by 40%
09 Nov 2019 The recent spike in air pollution levels across northern India has raised concerns about the health of hundreds of millions of people living here. A significant proportion of air pollutants arises from burning of crop residue across the agricultural heartland. At its centre is a lack of clarity among farmers about the […]
IGBC Green Village Rating System- Encouraging Villages to go Green
18 Jun 2020 Mahatma Gandhi said the soul of India lives in her villages. With 6,40,000 villages and more than 83 crore people in villages accounting for almost 65% of India’s rural population, India truly lives in her villages. Villages form an important part of India’s sustainable development agenda. For India to grow, its villages […]
Sustaining India’s Power and Renewable Energy Sector in the Wake of COVID-19
23 Jun 2020 The nation-wide lockdown, necessitated by the Coronavirus outbreak, has had repercussions on the already-slowing Indian economy, including the power and renewable energy (RE) sector, which has witnessed a sharp drop in demand due to the lockdown. According to a CII White Paper on Sustaining India’s Power and Renewable Energy Sector in the […]
Green Supply Chain Management
25 Jun 2020 Logistics and supply chain management is an integral part of any business. India, which has steadily adopted ‘smart’ technologically empowered operations has seen a major transformation in logistics and supply chain management as well, which reflects a growing concern for environmentally responsible economic activity even as the focus remains on reducing poverty […]
On the rise: Energy Efficient Technologies
26 Jun 2020 According to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the global energy-related CO2 emissions flattened in 2019 at around 33 Gigatonnes (Gt), after consecutive increase over the last two years. As the world grapples with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the energy sector, as others, continues to be impacted. The energy sector […]
Eliminating Food Wastage to Eradicate Hunger
28 Jun 2020 French lawyer, politician and gastronome, Anthelme Brillat-Savarin once said: “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” Across cultures and countries, food is at the centre of existence, and food wastage seen as being irreverent towards the millions devoted to producing it and the billions who don’t […]
Water- How Corporates are Making Every Drop Count
04 Jul 2020 The world is facing a severe water crisis due to factors like diverse topography, erratic rainfall patterns and limited and/or sub-optimal water management, and the demand for water is expected to rise in the coming decades. The focus on water management has sharpened: the Government of India proposes spending nearly Rs. 3.5 […]