When the world’s biggest corporates wake up to climate change
The biggest companies in the world have awakened to the fact that climate change is going to dramatically alter their businesses, including their bottomlines, a new report by CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) has found in its analysis. The report, Global Climate
IKEA: Asking people to buy climate-friendly furniture and products
IKEA India, the Swedish home-furnishing retailer, has begun a campaign called ‘A Better World Starts at Home’ to help customers live in a sustainable way. It aims at inspiring and enabling people to reduce their carbon footprint by using climate-friendly products. The company
Walmart Foundation: Helping farmers help themselves (and Walmart too?)
Walmart Foundation has begun collaboration on a programme that aims to benefit 10,000 smallholder farmers in Andhra Pradesh through the introduction of sustainable irrigation products and practices. The programme is being offered by the International Development Enterprises-India (IDEI) and supported with funding from
H&M Foundation: Funding and crowdfunding for sustainable fashion
H&M Foundation has launched an initiative with crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to engage with customers and enable them to take active part as supporters, backers and testers of innovative solutions. This is part of the Global Change Award instituted by the Foundation where winners
Volkswagen India: Restoring resources, the sustainable way
Volkswagen India and International Association for Human Values (IAHV) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a watershed-management project in Latur district, Maharashtra. The project aims to restore and sustain natural resources in the selected village cluster of Lasona, Indral, Wadmurambi and
The Body Shop: For healthcare and wildlife in the hills
The Body Shop India and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) have collaborated in constructing public sanitation facilities at the Asanang Health Centre in West Garo Hills, Meghalaya. This, they say, has been done also as their way of recognising the efforts of the
Club Mahindra: Volunteering to make people SMILE
Club Mahindra has launched an annual initiative, Mission S.M.I.L.E.S. (Social Movement to Improve Life Experiences), under the Employee Social Options Program (ESOP). Employees of the company have pledged to cumulatively volunteer 5,000 hours every year towards CSR initiatives that will focus on education,
Reducing plastic usage: Myth vs reality
Last year, CB reported that Starbucks was expected to eliminate more than one billion straws a year through its new strawless lid. This change was slated to occur in its 28,000-plus stores worldwide by 2020. The announcement was made with much fanfare and
British Telecommunications: Ambitious goals for young girls
BT (British Telecommunications plc) and the British Asian Trust have launched a three-year programme that will use digital technology to help improve education, employability, health choices, and autonomy for young girls in India. The programme will use apps, videos and other interactive digital
When employees band together to build a school
Over 700 children of migrant labourers recently received access to a new school from volunteers employed by the Adani Group. The company’s employees pledged their personal funds for the education of approximately 704 children in Mundra, Kutch, after discovering that there was no