Category : Environment

Applications can be sent in by organisations and individuals doing seminal work towards protecting and conserving India’s threatened wildlife and natural habitats. The Habitats Trust Grants, with a total prize purse of Rs 3.20 crore (three crores and twenty lakhs), will be given

In this, people will be given ecofriendly products (cloth bags, bamboo straw kits, etc.) in exchange of single-use plastic items including PET bottles and polythene bags. The plastic collected through this drive will be channelised to the Indian Pollution Control Association, a certified

The boat for this first Indian participation in the Energy Boat Race Challenge is designed by Team Sea Sakthi, comprising 14 students from Kumaraguru College of Technology Coimbatore, Tamil Nādu. The boat is assembled keeping in mind sustainability with zero emissions rate. The

One of India’s leading digital commerce entities, Flipkart Group is looking to decarbonise its own operations by 2030 and the larger value chain by 2040. This is in line with the global Science-based Targets initiative (SBTi) of keeping the global temperature rise to

The company has stated that its flagship water stewardship programme, Project Jalodari, recently achieved key milestones in helping create sustainable water sources and raising awareness on water conservation and sanitation in rural communities in Himachal Pradesh and Assam. The project is part of

Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL, better known as Taj hotels) has introduced its newly penned sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy called Paathya. The goals of this plan include elimination of single-use plastics, achieving water neutrality, and getting all its hotels the

The luncheon was hosted by Project Hilldaari as a token of appreciation for waste pickers and also to bring attention to the work these workers do”their importance, role and struggles. It took place on 1st March, marked as International Waste Pickers’ Day, in

Effectively, this means that the company collects, processes and recycles the same amount of plastic waste that it sells in its product packaging in a year. In FY 2021″22, Dabur collected, processed and recycled around 27,000 MT of post-consumer plastic waste from all

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), clean-energy company ReNew Power, and Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) have launched a partnership in the Indian state of Gujarat to teach  women from the informal sector skills that will allow them to work in the clean-energy  industry.