Since water cannot be created but only managed, should we place our greater faith in public service bodies or private corporations? Should water service be privatized, after all? Or, is there a choice here? Perhaps not. Already, drinking water is a full-fledged commodity packaged in bottles and sold as a branded consumer good. So, how…
Water has no substitute. And this makes it the single most precious resource on Earth. So, when terms like ‘water supply’, ‘water scarcity’, and ‘water management’ start being tossed about with more frequency and urgency, there is a sense of dread. And incredulity, too, since we always held water to be a limitless resource. As…
International shipping is a major – and rapidly growing – source of greenhouse gas emissions. Agreement to apply a carbon price to shipping can both reduce emissions and raise funds for climate change adaptation and mitigation in developing countries. This paper shows that doing so is possible while ensuring developing countries face no net costs….
Living in a city and caught up in the cross-currents of our daily living dilemmas and demands, we barely notice the pollution that is there all around us, inside us, sometimes in deafening forms, but mostly in a surreptitious manner. If truth be told, pollution, which is clearly one of the leading contributing factors to…
I believe that CSR 2.0 – or Transformative CSR (I also sometimes call it Systemic CSR, Radical CSR or Holistic CSR, so use whichever you prefer) – represents a new holistic model of CSR. The essence of the CSR 2.0 DNA model are the four DNA ‘responsibility bases’, which are like the four nitrogenous bases…
Under the 1950 Peace and Friendship treaty between Nepal and India, Nepalese have the right to live and work in India. Indeed, for decades they have been coming to India in search of employment opportunities. In theory, Nepalese in India have the same rights as Indian citizens, with the exception of voting rights; yet, they…
The reality of global warming has come under constant scrutiny by the lay public and news reporters in the last few months – largely because of some unfortunate and illegal access to private emails sent between scientists foremost in this field and some errors of fact published by the IPCC in their latest reports. The…
The report ‘Changing Course – A Study into Responsible Supply Chain Management’ introduces a new approach to supply chain management – Responsible Supply Chain Management 3.0 (RSCM 3.0). The vision is that it should be possible for international buyers to invest and purchase goods from specific ‘risk-free’ zones without the risk of being involved in…
Talking-and-thinking points from the report ‘Sustainable and inclusive innovation ” strategies for tomorrow’s world’ by CII-ITC CESD “ part 3 The five steps to ‘Sustainable and Inclusive Innovations’, or SI2, have been identified as important for a company that wants to explore sustainability and inclusivity as drivers for innovation. The five steps are represented in…
Talking-and-thinking points from the report ‘Sustainable and inclusive innovation – strategies for tomorrow’s world’ by CII-ITC CESD – part 2 So, what is the best strategy to go about doing ‘sustainable and inclusive innovations’, or SI2? There are six areas of strategic intervention, as discussed here. High asset use High asset use or high throughput…
