Environment

सपनों की नगरी मुंबई डूब रही है, मुंबई में मूसलाधार मानसूनी बारिश हो रही है, इस आफत की बारिश ने इस कदर कोहराम मचाया है कि मुंबईकरों का जनजीवन अस्त-व्यस्त हो गया है। निचले इलाकों में तो बाढ़ जैसे हालात बन गए हैं। बारिश के कारण कई दुर्घटनाओं से मुंबई दो चार हो रही...

‘Club Enerji’, a nationwide movement by Tata Power is built with an intent to train and sensitise the future citizens of India. It imparts knowledge and understanding of natural resources and energy conservation to the young minds of the nation. Continuing with its strategic focus of nation-building and in line with the global mission,...

Hunger and malnutrition are directly linked to the shift in a climate, which in turn creates a disorder in the production cycle. The rise in temperature, water scarcity, and air pollution have combined to create an inhospitable scenario where child health will face a full-forced impact of both water-borne diseases and dangerous respiratory conditions....

Agriculture has been blamed for one of the major contributors to climate change. Considering the fact that it is responsible for around third of the greenhouse emissions, and for soil erosion in several parts of the world, it demands a major change. Sustainable agriculture is no more an option, but a necessity. An initiative known...

22 Indian companies have been accused of not revealing the full extent of their impact on the climate crisis, water shortages and deforestation by an alliance of global investors. CDP, an environmental disclosure campaign platform, on behalf of 88 investors with a combined asset of over $10 trillion has written to 707 multinationals, spread...

Soil health has suffered a lot over the years because of rampant agriculture. In fact, Maria Helena Semedo, a deputy director at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization had commented that the world’s topsoil had become so degraded that it could only support another 60 harvests, in 2015. Extreme reliability on chemicals, deforestation, monoculture, and...

In 2018, Adidas created a global movement with Run for the Oceans, uniting nearly one million runners from around the world to help spread awareness and transform ocean plastic pollution into high-performance sportswear, raising $1 million to educate the youth on the problem of marine plastic pollution with Parley for the Oceans. The money raised...

Cotton accounts for 40% of all the raw materials used by the global textile industry. The material is an essential part of the global economy which is impossible to replace at the moment, owing to its comfort, durability and recyclability. The cotton industry is also responsible for providing a livelihood to millions of people...

India’s electric vehicle industry is taking huge forward strides. The National Electric Mobility Mission Plan (NEMMP) 2020 was launched by the Central Government in 2013 to boost the manufacture of hybrid and electric vehicles in India and aims to achieve production of seven million electric vehicles by 2020. This initiative has been complemented by...

As overflowing landfills and waste-ridden seas dominate the headlines, advocates continue to call on companies to embrace a circular economy, in which materials are infinitely reused and nothing becomes waste. Tupperware Brands is among those answering the call. Earlier this month, the direct sales company rolled out a vision to leverage its people and products to push the circular economy forward—which it fittingly dubbed No Time...

UltraTech Cement Limited is aiming to increase contribution of green energy to 25% of its total power consumption by 2021. This increase is more than double the current contribution of 10% of green energy to total energy consumption by the Company. The increase in green energy contribution comes in the wake of UltraTech’s commitment to increase contribution...

We spoke to R S Subramanian, Country Manager, DHL Express India and a member of the DHL Asia Pacific (excluding China) Management Board, about their ambitious goal. Deutsche Post DHL Group announced that it will reduce all logistics-related emissions to zero by the year 2050. In pursuit of this ambitious new target, the Group hopes...