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Decarbonizing Materials as Important as Green Energy Transition: Masood Mallick, CEO ReSustainability
The 2023-24 Union Budget provides much cause for celebration. While a transition to green energy is essential it is not enough. The same strategic...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman’s budget has a nice green ring to it. She has brought ‘green’ to the center-stage, as it should be, in...
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The 2023-24 budget allocates a whopping Rs.75,000 crore for developing pristine Nicobar Islands. The investment is earmarked for building a port, power generation plant,...
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The PwC Global Investor Survey 2022 observed that “Four out of five respondents (81%) say they would accept only a one percentage point or...
Ladakh – Glaciers vs. Growth
Sonam Wangchuk’s recent hunger protest highlights the key debate facing India today – are local people better at protecting fragile ecosystems around them or...
Measure How Basic Elements are Doing, Not Just GDP
Every country measures its economy by GDP or Gross Domestic Product, a measure of all the products and services produced in the country regardless...
IIMB Don Examines Link Between Climate Communication and Consumer Behavior
Prof. Arpita Pandey, faculty in the Marketing area at IIM Bangalore, has been awarded the Bala and Vasantha Balachandran Research Grant Award 2022 by the...
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Amidst a lot of gloom stories in 2022, there were several that offer hope. Among the many listed by www.humanprogress.org, SustainabilityNext has picked eight...
A Radical Strategy for A Greener India – The Story of Kusha
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Kusha, was born to a farmer...
Green Trucking Revolution Begins
Blue Energy Motors flagged off India’s first Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) fueled green trucks for J K Lakshmi Cement recently. The first fleet of...
Goodyear Unveils Tire with 90% Green Materials
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has unveiled a demonstration tire comprised of 90% sustainable materials, 20% higher than it did last year. A company...
YES BANK Gets ‘A’ for Climate Disclosures
YES BANK announced that it has been awarded an ‘A-’ rating by Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) for its 2022 Climate Change disclosures. Attaining this...
India, Sweden Sign Green Transition Partnership
Sweden launched the India-Sweden Green Transition Partnership (ISGTP) late November 2022 in Mumbai. The partnership is intended to promote exchange of carbon-neutral business practices...
Flipkart launches ‘Flipkart Green’
The one-stop destination will make it easy for customers to discover and shop for sustainable products/environmentally conscious products including organic, cruelty-free and environment-friendly products.
Flipkart has...
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Navigating the CSR Maze Can Leave NGOs Gasping for Breadth
The Indian Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) law came into existence on April Fool’s Day in 2014. So, who was the CSR law meant to...
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The nexus between politics and industry is unlikely to save virgin rainforests across the world, especially in Indonesia and Malaysia. Only well-informed consumers can,...
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Almost everyone today is aware that their consumption habits have a negative impact on the environment and are trying to do their bit in...
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Women-run Electric Autos in Dantewada
In the supposedly backward district of India, one of the most modern trends is taking place. Members of a women self-help group run 86...
Dantewada is India’s Organic Rice Capital
It was indeed courageous of the Chhattisgarh government to hold the ‘Tribal Entrepreneurship Summit in Dantewada on 14 November 2017. Security was in full...
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Green Cement Pioneer is Out to Capture Carbon in Tons
Late management guru CK Prahalad famously said “Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.”
Mahendra Singhi has proved CK right. In...
The Beginning of India’s Second White Revolution
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Apparel Sector Gets New Higg Materials Index
The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), a global industry coalition that is standardizing social and environmental sustainability performance measurement, launched a new and improved version...
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A Stranger Truth: Lessons in Love, Leadership and Courage from India’s...
Bill Gates calls this book “A powerful story of hope that deserves to be widely read.”
This book is an account of...
Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative
Amazon recently launched its Sustainability Data Initiative to provide access to large datasets in the cloud to help researchers and innovators address a wide...
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Walking the Coast
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Mountain Mania
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Although I enjoy reading non-fiction, I may not have voluntarily picked a book on mountains, deeming it too dull. But Up the...
A Glorious Ode to the Mahseer
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‘All life on earth needs water to survive and grow.’
ALL life.
Opening with the above statement in the foreword of his book, The...
Ready for Harvest
By Aparna Kher
With the first rain of the season, everyone is eager to help baba sow seeds in their family’s vegetable garden. After they...
Are You Ready to Eat the Sun?
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Written and illustrated by Labonie Roy, How the Myna ate the Sun is based on the interesting premise of how the Sun,...
Green Leader's ChatRoom
Say What’s Truly On Your Mind
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Is Green Hydrogen a Hype or a Hope?
India believes that green hydrogen could solve much of its fuel problems in the near future. Green hydrogen is no longer a dream or...
KKR Launches Council to Drive ESG Strategy
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Bridging Funding Gaps Key to India Keeping Its COP26 Promises
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made ambitious commitments at his speech at COP26 Summit, at Glasgow in November 2021, and spoke of India’s successful track...
M&M Enters the World Index of DJSI
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Tech Startups Can Make India Water Rich
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Decarbonizing Materials as Important as Green Energy Transition: Masood Mallick, CEO ReSustainability
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Amidst a lot of gloom stories in 2022, there were several that offer hope. Among the many listed by www.humanprogress.org, SustainabilityNext has picked eight...
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On November 15, 2022, the 8 billionth child will be born on Planet Earth. Is it a cause for celebration or despair?
For long, we...
How Satya Tripathi is Leading Natural Farming Revolution in India
The phenomenal success of natural farming in Andhra and Telangana has emboldened India to experiment it nationwide soon. If taken up seriously, India could...
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Praj Emerges as a Global Leader in BioEconomy
Dr. Pramod Chaudhari, executive chairman of Praj Industries, recently announced Praj’s foray into the renewable chemicals and materials (RCM) industry by developing technologies to...
Shri R.S. Dhillon, CMD, PFC Conferred with the Prestigious “CMD Leadership...
Shri Ravinder Singh Dhillon, Chairman & Managing Director of Power Finance Corporation Ltd (PFC), a Maharatna Company and Indias leading NBFC in the power...
CropLife India Salutes the Spirit of Women Farmers
CropLife India, an association of both Indian and Global R & D driven crop science organizations, and the leading voice of the plant science...
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The Handbook of Carbon Accounting
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