Global Stories

Ericsson today announces a major new commitment to empower 1 million children and young people by 2025 through access to digital learning, tools, content and development programs. This commitment forms part of the World Economic Forum-aligned EDISON Alliance 1 Billion Lives Challenge - a global movement of forty-five champions from the public and private sectors....

Epson, a world leader in digital imaging and printing solutions recently became the first(1) company in the Japanese manufacturing industry to convert to 100% renewable electricity for all its domestic sites(2). As a result, Epson will reduce its annual carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 250,000 tonnes. Epson has established and is pursuing a new long-term...

Renewable wood-based products can help combat climate change and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, according to a new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The report Forest Products in the global bioeconomy: Enabling substitution by wood-based products and contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals has compiled the most recent...

Call for Code founding partner IBM and its creator, David Clark Cause, announced the winner of the fourth annual Call for Code Global Challenge. The top prize this year went to Saaf Water, an accessible water quality sensor and analytics platform created, in particular, for people living in rural localities. In Bihar, nine members of...

UKIBC Executive Chair, Richard Heald, and British High Commissioner, Alex Ellis, were joined by Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog, Nadia Rasheed, Deputy Resident Representative, UNDP India, and Yashika Singh, Vice-President – Corporate Affairs, Pernod Ricard, for a panel discussion moderated by Mr Heald at the event. The group discussed the role that business can and...

India has retained its spot at the 10th rank in the best-performing countries in the global Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) for the third year in a row. The report released by Germanwatch on the side-lines of the COP26 has noted that no country performed well enough in all index categories to achieve an...

Home Credit has released its inaugural Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report. The report sets out the programmes and measures that Home Credit has been delivering to support communities and customers, and how the company has focused on delivering responsible, sustainable financial services. The report – set to be released on an annual basis -...

Air pollution is considered the world's largest environmental health threat2, with, according to the WHO, 93% of children breathing polluted air every day. In a bid to raise awareness of the devastating health impact of this ‘invisible crisis’ and show what is possible, nasal health expert Otrivin has launched the Otrivin Air Bubble, a unique educational architecture, using biotechnology to...

India has promised to cut its emissions to net-zero by 2070. While delivering the national address at the CoP26 climate summit at Glasgow, as a ‘representative’ of developing nations, PM Modi outlined a five-point plan or ‘Panchamrit’ to fight the devastating effects of global warming and climate change. What is Net Zero? ‘Net zero’ emissions means...

Today UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Solutions Michael R. Bloomberg announced the nine founding members of CFLI India. CFLI India’s members are leaders in climate and infrastructure finance and bring the same global scale and influence of the Climate Finance Leadership Initiative (CFLI) to concentrate action on accelerating private climate finance flows...

In the run-up to the COP 26 – the climate summit in Glasgow, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched a campaign called ‘Don’t choose extinction’ aimed at sending an impactful message to take action against climate change. To this end, UNDP has brought a ferocious, talking dinosaur to the United Nations’ headquarters...

After the devastation caused by the First World War, the League of Nations was born under the Treaty of Versailles “to promote international cooperation and to achieve peace and security."  However, the newly formed alliance could not prevent the Second World War from happening which led to its disbanding and formation of a new...