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For long, the idea that climate change has any direct or indirect impact on human rights seemed unbelievable. There was very little that was said about the relationship of business and human rights with the environment, much less with respect to climate change. While international agencies and national governments have acknowledged that climate change and […]

Feminization of the workforce accompanied by increasing informalisation is an emerging phenomenon across Indian industries- from garment to electronics to agriculture. Faced with stiff global competition, ensuring minimal rights and protection of these women workers (such as job security, maternity leave, on-site childcare provisions, etc) therefore remains highly ‘unlikely’. The pandemic has amplified these challenges,

The big push towards clean mobility, particularly e-mobility, is finally here. Over the past five years, several state governments as well the Central Government have been actively promoting higher adoption of electric vehicles as well as cleaner fuels such as CNG. While CNG-run buses and taxis have been in service for quite a few years,

Contrary to a recent saying, “Coronavirus impacts everyone equally, doesn’t discriminate between the rich and the poor”, the poor in India – especially the urban poor has been most adversely affected and are battling for survival. Ever since the lockdown hit on 25th March 2020 in India, millions have lost their jobs—unemployment rate stood at

Background: Environmental accounting or green accounting is a new branch of accounting that aims at accounting for the Environment and its well-being. The adoption of Green accounting depicts the commitment an enterprise/organization has towards the environment. It deals with 3 important factors: people, profitability and the planet and also deals with the costs and the

The government is an important stakeholder in the agricultural sector in India due to the policy support it provides. It is a key driver of policies that envision policy change on a thematic basis ranging from increasing incomes of farmers to increasing in the country’s exports. This article aims to capture a brief snapshot of

According to the definition given by the United Nations, the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global changes related to poverty, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. All the 17 Goals are interconnected to one another.1 As global population

In his celebrated book ‘Built to Last’, Jim Collins advanced the theory that visionary and enduring companies had a special ability that set them apart from others. These companies were able to distinguish between their timeless core values/purpose (stable and never changing) from operating business principles (dynamic and ever evolving with external conditions). In the

I am going to wear this dress when I lose some weight. Replace the dress with denim/top/t-shirt/jacket/sweater/kurta and you have yourself a whole wardrobe waiting for you to shed that weight. It is a pretty common thought. We hoard clothes for various reasons, sometimes in anticipation of the weighing scale tilting to the left or

‘Circular economy’ is now one of the most talked-about ideas among sustainability professionals. From Walter Stahel to the Club of Rome, the concept of a “regenerative economy” with (ideally) endless loops of materials and energy has found many proponents over the past four decades. But the current buzz around circular economy has been created by