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Over a week before the launch of Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM-CARES Fund), several corporate groups were mulling over ways in which to do their bit towards relief measures for the Covid-19 pandemic with their corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds. Although the same would have qualified as CSR spend…

By now, enough and more has been written about the COVID-19 (or coronavirus) pandemic. The novel virus has managed to do two novel things: simultaneously lock up at least a third of the world’s population, including the one-fifth of humanity that resides in India, and free up the CSR coffers of many of this country’s…

While the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests were”rightfully”burning up the country, another fire engulfed a continent-country. Usually on the margins of international news, Australia’s bushfires have been raging since September 2019 and engulfed massive swathes of this gigantic land, concentrating on the eastern and southern coast, in areas around its largest cities such as Sydney…

In October last year, a damning report on the top 20 polluting firms in the world was released. As per an analysis by Richard Heede at the US-based Climate Accountability Institute, 20 fossil fuel companies are responsible for more than one-third of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This essentially means that despite global pacts like…

Recently, the term ‘climate apartheid’ made the rounds of both traditional mass media and social media. A new report by Philip Alston, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, was presented to the UN Human Rights Council in end June. The report made it clear that climate change would have devastating consequences…

With the BJP-led NDA government winning a huge mandate to rule the country for the next five years, it’s a good time to take stock of their existing and expected environmental policies, including on climate change. Irrespective of where one stands on the political divide, this is one policy area that is critical for the…

With CSR becoming the norm for all medium- to large-scale companies, private and public, CSR causes and fields have also expanded substantially. This means that companies are now doing work that was hitherto the exclusive domain of governments or, in many cases, collaborating with it. There are legitimate questions and concerns around the fact that…

With a population that is slowly becoming aware of the importance of physical health (blame it on the air pollution), there’s another aspect of a person’s overall health that hasn’t received the same attention in India. Mental health is as important as physical health and in many ways, even more critical for a person’s well-being….