Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman urged the chartered accountants in the country to learn about carbon, CSR, and ESG practices; and implement the same in their business practice. She stressed the need for the CAs to familiarize themselves with national and international accounting standards, regulatory frameworks, and compliance mandates for carbon accounting, CSR and ESG.
Ten thousand e-buses will be deployed under the PPP model, but priority will be given to those cities which do not have an organized bus service
Renewable energy and reforestation are are the key enablers helping India to meet her Net Zero targets
A solar power adoption initiative which included installing 24 solar-powered water pumps and five solar-powered vaccine refrigerators—all operational, changed the lives of the communities living in Kalalé.
Indorama Ventures, a producer of urea, phosphate fertilizers, polyolefins, synthetic gloves, cotton and synthetic spun yarns, has increased recycling facility in Brazil. The recycling facility, located in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil, is increasing its production capacity from 9 thousand tons to 25 thousand tons per year of PET made from post-consumer recycled (PET-PCR)
In line with the UN SDG 12 on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP), auto manufacturer Honda has pushed on its accelerator toward circular materiality. The company is advancing a recycling initiative that takes uniforms worn by associates and textile waste from its U.S. manufacturing and R&D facilities and transforms them into sound-absorbing insulation for use
Jindal Stainless, the third largest private steel producer, is working at reducing Scope 3 emissions. With this, the company is ready for European Union’s Cross Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) for EU’s carbon tax. While the company has made significant progress against its ESG metrics, it is preparing for EU’s carbon tax by reducing Scope 3
Production of every batch of 50,000 r-PVC cards results in a noteworthy reduction of 350 kilograms of carbon emissions. In addition, the manufacturing of r-PVC cards leads to a remarkable 43% reduction in hydrocarbon utilization, thereby decreasing petroleum consumption
The Maharashtra government has set up a panel to monitor implementation of the Maharashtra State Action Plan for Climate Change (MSAPCC).
IBM that had developed AI-based geospatial foundation model from NASA’s satellite model has decided to share the code on open-source AI platform, Hugging Face. The initiative is an effort from both: IBM and NASA to widen access to NASA’s earth science data for geospatial intelligence and accelerate climate-related discoveries and innovations in Earth science. It
In a bid to advance climate strategy, advocate carbon emissions, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Climate Agreement’s 1.5-degree Celsius scenario by 2050, the Global Steel Climate Council (GSCC) has established Global Steel Climate Standards (GSCS). The standards are based on the principles of reducing global steel industry GHG emissions, establishing
In line with Indian Railways policy, we target to reduce water consumption by 20% by 2023 and have set up MRF (material recovery facilities) for waste management in more than 250 stations
