Environment
Asia Pacific Adopts Regional Road Map To Accelerate SDGS
Asia-Pacific countries have adopted a road map for regional cooperation on implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD 2017) that concluded in Bangkok recently.
The road map lays out priority...
World Environment Conference: Govt Argues For Sustainable Development
The government argued for a plan for sustainable development, balancing the need to protect the environment and continued growth at the third World Conference...
Water: What We Have Is All We Have!
The figures are stark. Nearly 1.8 billion people – or about 25 % of the world’s population, do not have access to safe drinking water and an...
Tamil Nadu Chalks Out Green Plan To Make Buildings Sustainable
Development regulations in Tamil Nadu are a taking a definite green turn, with the authorities involved considering a slew of proposals to address water,...
What is Internal Carbon Price to Corporations?
A lot has happened on the climate change front in the last two years. Around December 2015, in Paris, we as a global community,...
The Growing Need For Whale Shark Conservation
From profit to people and to the planet, an effective CSR policy is a vision of this triple-bottom line concept. Maintaining bio-diversity is as...
CSR Ependiture 2016: Environment & Sports Lose While Education & Health Get More Funds
Year by year, expenditure in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) realm is increasing. CSR spending this year increased remarkably by 22% from 6,800 crore...
Shifting India’s Energy Sources
Human beings are said to have three basic needs- food, water and shelter. But in today’s world, the horizon of human needs has expanded...
Upholding Forest Foot Soldiers Protecting Wildlife Along Loc
There are over 15,000 guards on the Line of Control (LoC) to protect forests and wildlife conservation. To manage human conditions, with the involvement...
India Is Growing GDP Of The Rich, I Want India To Grow GDP Of Poor: Pavan Sukhdev, Founder-CEO, GIST
Pavan Sukhdev is Founder-CEO of GIST Advisory, a consulting firm which helps governments and corporations discover, measure, value, and manage their impacts on natural...
Are We Dumping Our Future?
India generates more than 50 billion kgs of urban waste every year and most of this ends up in illegal dump yards all around...
Who Drained My Water?
A FICCI study on Water Risks for Indian Industries (2012) found that groundwater is the major source of water for different industrial sectors across...