The Business Case
As a part of the ongoing series of my blogposts (read the earlier post here) on the recent legislation by the government mandating compulsory spending 2% of the company’s net profits in the […]
(GUEST POST: Pawan Mehra, cKinetics) As India Inc. begins to adopt Sustainability reporting, investors are likely to be combing through it and select winners from the rest.In these reports businesses […]
Nestle is very clear on what it intends to achieve – find ways and methods by which businesses can play a role in the development of the communities and countries it […]
A fortnight ago I attended the CII ITC’s Sustainability Summit but was unable to write on some of the key topics, like how a good corporate governance structure can create both societal as well […]
Some time ago I wrote about why we continue to see the unsatisfactoriness of the Rio declaration. Now that we have Rio+20 summit upon us this month, I thought it […]
I came across a report titled“Corporate Ecosytem Valuation – Building the business case” developed by World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). About 10 years ago, one of the first attempts was […]
(GUEST POST: by Pawan Mehra, Managing Director at a sustainability consulting firm cKinetics) In our work with clients and analysis carried out at firms undertaking Sustainability initiatives, cKinetics has found the […]
GUEST POST by Rajendra Shende, Chairman, TERRE Policy Centre, former Director, UNEP In 1997, these words reverberated at the round table in The White House, Washington DC - spoken by […]
An EMS refers to a system used by a company to manage its activities, product or services in such a way to minimize or eliminate the adverse impacts on environment. […]
Companies and the industry at large can take certain measures that will promote corporate responsibility. Such measures may be regulatory or voluntary. But as is seen, most of the companies […]
I was recently invited to a Business Forum on Climate Change organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in partnership with ITC, a corporate sector organization. The CII-ITC together […]
MNC’s need to understand the mindset of the emerging economies. A product that works in the developed world may not work in the developing world. Similarly advanced and current labor/employment […]
Following up on my earlier post “Measure tonnes of Carbon not tons of dollars that EU ETS will save!”, I did some brief research on the topic and here’s a quick […]
I’m not an International Trade Expert, or a Finance guru or an Economics erudite – but it just makes sense to have carbon tax on “all” flights! Period. Why – is […]
