OPINIONS

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a detrimental impact on people and communities at large, disrupting the socio-economic landscape of the country and the gains made towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) over the last few years. Its sudden onset impacted how we see the world, conduct business, and go about our lives. During this...

In India, as is the case globally, investors use different strategies to build and diversify their asset portfolios to optimize financial gains. While multiple new-age assets have arrived for both short and long-term benefits, one emerging trend over the past decade has been sustainable investing. While sustainable investing is another proven method of growing one’s...

What is ESG? ESG refers to the environmental, social, and governance factors of a company’s non-financial performance. It relates to the sustainability practices adopted for the long-term. Today, customers and stakeholders have an expectation from businesses to be cognizant of the environmental, social, and governance impact that an organization has through its operations. ESG is...

More than 65% of our country’s population resides in rural areas. With more than half of the population concentrated in rural areas, one would naturally assume that the rural areas are well-equipped on the healthcare front. The stats, however, have a different story to tell. Rural India accounts for only 3.2 government hospital beds...

The right schooling is the foundational stepping stone to success in life.  Quality education in school promotes the development of the knowledge, skills and values required to create a sustainable world. It encourages environmental conservation and social equity and, at the same time, enables economic progress.  Schools across India are exploring innovative ways to...

Today’s economic prosperity and infrastructural development has been built on numerous innovations and industrial revolutions. From the early industrial revolution in the late 1700s to the current 5G revolution, we have come a long way from our ancestors to improve our everyday lives. However, while kick starting this journey to prosperity, we forgot to...

A 2015 Nielsen Global Sustainability Report found that 43% of consumers say that a company’s commitment to social value “very heavily” or “heavily” influenced their purchase decisions. Doing good quietly doesn’t help the cause because social impact needs both financial and marketing support. A few NGOs and charitable organizations shared that they prefer a...

Sustainability discussions in boardrooms across the world are at the ‘walk the talk’ stage. While broader awareness and understanding of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) mandates continue, many brands have deployed well-defined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure where they stand on their sustainability commitments. This shift has prompted many organisations to take bold...

By: Dr. Pankaj Jain, Head of the Department of Humanities & Languages and Chair of the India Centre at FLAME University. These are some of the news headlines over the past few weeks, even as India continues to reel under scorching summer. From an intense and extended winter right into a scorching summer, we are...

Corporate Social Responsibility has never been more critical than the present times. With the pandemic washing over us in wave after wave, it has impacted lives and livelihoods in inestimable ways. It is now, more than ever, that the world of business has to look at people and the world with compassion. Most are...

India’s healthcare sector has witnessed significant improvements over the past few years. However, these developments are largely restricted to urban areas and the rural areas are still grappling with a host of issues that need immediate attention. Around 65% of the country’s population resides in rural areas. And yet, rural India only has 3.2...

The '60s was a time when resources were 'unlimited' and progress was unabated and was measured by industrial development. But today, the scenario seems to have changed. Years of technological development, mass production and our collective consumption has impacted our finite and dwindling natural resources and climate on earth. What is the need for sustainable...