Environment

देश की समस्याओं में बिजली आपूर्ति भी एक अहम है, जहां आजकल क्लीन और ग्रीन एनर्जी की बात होती है वही कम बिजली और उस बिजली के उत्पादन में कार्बन उत्सर्जन एक बड़ी समस्या बन कर उभर रही है इससे निपटारा पाने के लिए सरकारें सौर ऊर्जा को बढ़ावा दे रही है। इसी पहल...

Concern for the environment has become a vital global issue for the most part of the early 21st century in view of major shifts in the weather conditions and its impact on the environment. In the context of the environment, the focus areas of CSR and the environment in India include environmental sustainability, ecological...

India is blessed with indiscriminate sunlight all year round. If utilized well, it could produce a huge amount of solar energy which could make the country self-sufficient. Demonstrating this is the first-ever airport in the world to be completely powered by solar energy – the Cochin Airport. As of November 2018, with 40 MW worth...

Every minute we lose forest cover equivalent to 36 football fields. This means 13 million hectares of forest land disappear every year, an area equivalent to the size of Greece. The consequences are doubly negative for our planet: deforestation accounts for about 17% of Climate Change. The loss of forests has more impact on greenhouse...

The United Nations is facing a severe liquidity crisis, reaching its deepest deficit of the decade. Several emergency measures have been put in place by the UN to tide over the financial crunch. Official travel will be limited to the most essential activities, air conditioning and heating in the UN Secretariat has been reduced outside...

पानी की एक एक बूंद की कीमत एक प्यासा ही बता सकता है, यही कारण है कि हम सब इसकी एहमियत को जानते हुए जल को जीवन मानते है और बचत करते है, जिसके लिए बाकायदा सीएसआर के तहत चाहे सरकारें हो या कॉरपोरेट बड़े पैमाने में पानी को लेकर मुहिम चला रही है,...

Marico Limited, in line with its commitment to sustainability, has announced its partnership with Future Retail’s format Big Bazaar to launch a plastic recycling programme ‘Plastic Lao Paise Kamao’.  Aligned with the national agenda on plastic waste management, this initiative is aimed at building awareness amongst consumers around plastic recycling and encourages them to take...

From 2011 to 2016, California experienced five years of extreme drought, during which numerous high temperature records were broken. These hot, dry years were followed by the extremely wet winter of 2016 -2017, when, from October to March, an average of 31 inches of rain fell across the state, the second highest winter rainfall...

“Access to water was always an issue for us. Treading miles and for hours in a day to meet our water requirement was a daily routine. It would lead to my seven-year-old daughter missing school often to help me out,” laments Vasanti Belsare, a 32-year-old resident from Bhandri village in Maharashtra. Millions of rural...

Going green has become a profitable business strategy considering the contemporary environmental scenario. With rising awareness about climate change, more and more people are demanding the corporates to adopt green business practices and provide the customers with environment-friendly products and services. Green business practices not only open a new market of environment lovers, but...

The Paris Agreement of 2015 was accompanied by nationally determined contribution (NDC) targets set by countries domestically and reported to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process. However, time and again it has been proven that the NDCs submitted in 2015 are insufficient. Their cumulative effect, even if all that was committed...

APL Apollo launched its Steel for Green initiative at the ITC Grand Bharat in Gururgam. The Steel for Green initiative signals a major move towards environmental consciousness and sustainability. Which is why the event saw participation from APL Apollo’s dealers across the country along with company employees across the organizational hierarchy. The Chief Guests at...