Why climate apartheid will be catastrophic and why you should care
Recently, the term ‘climate apartheid’ made the rounds of both traditional mass media and social media. A new report by Philip Alston, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, was presented to the UN Human Rights Council in end June.
Tata Steel BSL: Parks, recreation, and saving water
Tata Steel BSL recently launched a six-month campaign called ‘Save Water’ at its Sahibabad plant in Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh, so as to sensitise the local community and school children. As part of the campaign, volunteers are interacting with the community and
Castrol: Helping dealers help themselves to some green practices
Castrol India Limited, one of the leading automotive and industrial lubricant manufacturing companies in the country, has launched a carbon-neutral sustainability solutions programme to help automotive dealerships reduce their carbon footprint. Castrol will support automotive dealerships offset emissions and become carbon-neutral. As part
Nagarro: Electric fleet for the ecofriendly
IT consulting and services company Nagarro has launched an electric vehicle (EV) fleet for employee commute in partnership with Lithium Urban Technologies, the country’s first EV cab services company. The EV fleet was inaugurated by TC Gupta, Additional Chief Secretary, Transport, Haryana. Starting
Climate change-led displacement realities
A record number of people, seven million to be exact, have been displaced from their homes during the first six months of 2019, according to a September report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC). This makes 2019 one of the most disastrous
Legrand India: Funding the (student’s) dream of France
The second batch of 25 students under the UGAM Legrand scholarship programme for higher education in France were recently felicitated at an event. The scholarship programme was started in 2018 to support Indian students to pursue higher education in France. The programme, the
Vision Zero: To reduce road-crash casualties
The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), Volkswagen Group India, and SaveLIFE Foundation have entered into a partnership to drive an initiative called Vision Zero to significantly reduce road-crash deaths and make the Old Mumbai-Pune Highway (NH 48) safe for all road users.
Mahindra: 1.3 billion trees for 1.3 billion people
Mahindra Group’s recently launched initiative, #CelebrateDifferently, aims to motivate citizens to plant a tree – and for those who are not able to do so, they can like, share, or comment on #CelebrateDifferently and the company will plant a tree on their behalf
Club Mahindra: Resorting to clean and green practices
Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd’s Coorg resort (Virajpet) in Karnataka has received India’s first ‘zero waste to landfill (ZWL) resort’ certification from Intertek, a quality assurance provider to industries worldwide. This certification was the result of several initiatives such as recycling and
Food insecurity is now a secured threat
Climate change will severely affect the ability of humans to feed themselves due to existing resources being exploited at unprecedented and unsustainable rates, as per a new UN report. The report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, called Climate Change and Land,