Volunteer for a cause”and employee goodwill
Companies covered GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) | Hero MotoCorp | ICICI Lombard | IndiGo | Microsoft | NetApp | PwC | SAP For CSR, there’s no dearth of causes or the kind of forms that it can take. The most popular (and hands-off) approach remains
Cox & Kings Foundation: Building an inclusive train station
Borivali has become the first blind-friendly railway station in Mumbai, with Cox & Kings Foundation, in association with Anuprayaas and Western Railways, unveiling a string of facilities including Braille-embossed railings on foot overbridges and in the subways, Braille-embossed entry and exit points, and
IPCC: Doomsday is almost here
The latest report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is blunt in its dire assessments for the future of the planet – the immediate consequences of climate change is far worse than previously thought and to avoid this scenario, the world economy
Europe says no to single-use plastics
In October, the European Parliament approved a ban on single-use plastics across Europe by 2021. The proposal bans 10 single-use plastics that most frequently end up in the ocean, as well as oxo-degradable plastics, such as bags or fast-food container packaging. The banned
Plastic-free world: A pipe dream?
A new report issued by the International Energy Agency (IEA), titled ‘The Future of Petrochemicals’, has found that a sharp increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the petrochemical industry has the potential to negate the decrease in emissions from other sectors. Such
Audi: Paying the price for cheating
In October, as part of the fallout from the emissions-cheating scandal, Audi agreed to pay a fine of €800 million, or about $930 million, in Germany. The fine was for failure to properly supervise employees who devised and executed this cheating scheme. However,
NSDL e-Governance: Financing students to higher achievements
A partnership aimed at financially assisting deserving students with scholarships was announced between Vidyasaarathi, an education scholarship portal powered by NSDL e-Governance Infrastructure Limited (NSDL e-Gov), and JSW Foundation, part of the JSW Group, one of India’s largest conglomerates. This collaboration hopes to
Volkswagen: Small acts of donation
Volkswagen India has signed an MoU with Symbiosis Skills and Open University (SSOU), Pune, whereby it has donated a Vento to the students of the university. The Vento will be used in the SSOU lab to educate students enrolled in the automobile stream.
Hydrogen – powering life and now trains
In a shot in the arm for clean energy, two hydrogen-powered trains recently went into commercial service on a rail line in northern Germany near Hamburg. The Coradia iLint trains are running along a 62-mile corridor between towns in Lower Saxony in the
Three years since Paris: India’s progress, missteps, and way ahead
The COP24 (Conference of the Parties) will take place in Katowice, Poland, on 3″18 December 2018. This is the United Nations climate-change conference that involves almost every country in the world. The COP is the main decision-making body of the United Nations Framework