Havaianas: Flip-flops know no gender
Brazilian flip-flop brand Havaianas has launched its first Pride global collection to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community and establish a partnership with All Out, an organisation that acts globally by mobilising civil society and companies to defend the rights of LGBTQIA+ people. The Pride
CSR post-Covid-19: A floor test for India Inc.? Hear it from top decision makers
With inputs from: Aditya Birla Group | Hero MotoCorp | Tata Power | Toyota | Volvo | Mahindra | Standard Chartered | Piramal Swasthya What if the company does not make profits? Will your social interventions be able to sustain themselves?
Five years of Hero MotoCorp’s CSR: Outcomes from evaluations
In March, just before the lockdown started, I managed a visit to Imphal to evaluate if Mary Kom’s boxing academy was doing fine. I had to meet a few kids training under her and maybe predict if the academy had the potential to
RBI: Making payments digital everywhere
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has set up a Rs 500 crore ($65 million) fund to improve the country’s digital payments infrastructure. The Payments Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF) will help in the deployment of physical and digital points of sale (PoS) infrastructure
Comcast: Million-dollar plan to combat racial injustice
American telecommunications conglomerate Comcast has announced a multiyear plan to allocate $100 million to fight injustice and inequality. In a press release shared by Brian L Roberts, chairman and CEO, Comcast Corporation, the company said that this plan is a response to structural
Tata Steel BSL: Electric is the way to go green
Tata Steel BSL has introduced six electric cars in its fleet of vehicles at its plant in Dhenkanal, Odisha. These are the first commercial electric cars deployed, and registered for commercial use, in the state. According to the company, this is part of
An EU Green Deal for a post-COVID world
The EU has announced that its coronavirus recovery package for the bloc will be geared towards green transformations. The seven-year €1 trillion budget proposal and a €750 billion recovery plan will focus on both green and digital initiatives. As confirmed by the European
HCL Foundation: Celebrating the environment through stories and examples
On 5 June, World Environment Day was celebrated with the theme as ‘biodiversity’ and the slogan ‘Time for Nature’ by HCL Foundation, the CSR arm of HCL Technologies. As part of this, it organised a series of virtual workshops and sessions through which
Avon: Telling domestic-abuse survivors they are not alone
A grant of $1 million and a campaign to frontline domestic-abuse services during the Covid-19 lockdown has been announced by Avon, along with the Avon Foundation for Women. The emergency grant was given to 50 frontline services and charity organisations around the world
When climate change reaches the depths of the earth
A new study tells us that the world’s oceans may be heated to seven times higher than current levels by the second half of this century even if greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions were reduced drastically. The research, Climate velocity reveals increasing exposure of