Environment
Leveraging Citizen Science and AI to combat air pollution
By: Rozita Singh, Dr. Krishnan Srinivasaraghavan, Swetha Kolluri, and Sona Pradeep
Citizen science and citizen engagement are powerful means to build trust in science and leverage...
Green Pathshala: A Coaching Institute That Asks Planting Saplings as its Admission Fees
For children from low-income families, education in itself is often a luxury, let alone studying at coaching institutes for competitive exams. Many students with...
World Tiger Day 2021: Role of CSR in Conservation of Tigers
About a century ago, it was easy to see the tiger in its natural habitat as around 100,000 of them roamed across Asia, including...
Higg Index: A Transparency Tool for Fashion Brands to Confirm Accuracy of their ESG Claims
The sustainability conscious consumers of today have been mounting pressure on fashion brands across the world to adapt sustainability in their day-to-day operations. In...
Top Indian Companies that have Committed to Invest in Clean Energy
As the world makes attempts to combat global warming and climate change, corporates across the world are compelled to invest more in acquiring and...
Vedanta Aluminium Business recycles 16.5 billion litres of water in financial year 2020-21
Vedanta Aluminium Business, India’s largest producer of aluminium and value-added products, has recycled 16.5 billion litres of water in FY 20-21, leveraging technology for...
CSR versus Core-Business Sustainability
Corporate Social Responsibility and sustainability are being used by businesses interchangeably. While the government of India envisioned CSR to catalyse philanthropic effort among businesses,...
Food Waste Could Change the Future of Fashion, Says New Report
Rice straw, banana stems and other agricultural waste could soon go from farmer’s fields to the fashion runway. A new study shows that there...
International Plastic Bag Free Day: CSR Initiatives to Eliminate use of Plastic Bags
Plastic pollution is a manmade global catastrophe that poses a major threat to the environment, biodiversity as well as human health. With an aim...
India poised to become a wind export hub
India’s electricity demand is projected to grow at 9.9% yearly towards 2025 driven by its sheer size and economic growth. The demand dipped temporarily...
Corporates actively reducing their carbon footprint
Greenhouse gas emissions constitute a significant portion of a business’s total carbon footprint. Recognising these emissions as a part of one’s own carbon footprint...
Reliance Industries Limited Committed to Invest Rs. 75,000 Crores on Renewable Energy
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has made a substantial commitment of spending Rs. 75,000 crores on clean energy. Mukesh Ambani, the Chairman of RIL said...