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Assistant Director – Centre for Responsible Business Linkedin On this World Child Labour Day, we must reflect on the progress made and renew our commitment to end child labour once and for all. Despite global efforts, child labour remains a persistent problem, particularly in developing countries like India. Recent estimates indicate there are still over […]

Founder- Avyannaa Linkedin Fostering Sustainability: Navigating Contemporary Responsible Business Issues In an interconnected world, responsible business practices have transcended mere profit making ventures to become vehicles of positive change. As Indian and international  practitioners grapple with a host of contemporary challenges, the overarching theme of  sustainability has emerged as the guiding light towards ethical and

Assistant Director – Centre for Responsible Business Linkedin The transition to a net-zero carbon economy presents both challenges and opportunities to advance gender equity. As industries develop strategies to decarbonise their operations and supply chains, there is an opportunity to integrate gender considerations into policies, processes and partnerships consciously. The first step is to prioritise

Linkedin Introduction International Women’s Day serves as a reminder of the progress made towards gender equality but also highlights how much work there is still left to do. To that end, technology has been identified as an important tool in levelling the playing field for women and empowering them across many areas of life. This

Linkedin It is always with humility that international assessments can or should be made from outside of a country.  However, my association with the Centre for Responsible Business in Delhi and in my years leading global moves towards integrated reporting (now merged in to the new global body setting corporate sustainability reporting standards), I had

Linkedin Linkedin Climate change may very well be the biggest challenge of this century, affecting our economies, households, and geopolitics. Yet, akin to a technological disruption (or innovation), it possesses the power to pave way for a new growth paradigm. Underlining this paradigm shift, a whopping $3.1 trillion climate investment opportunity is present before India

Linkedin Engine No. 1, an American impact-focused hedge fund, made headlines around the globe in 2021 for forcing two members off the board of energy giant, Exxon Mobil Corp. The hedge fund’s campaign compelled the company’s leadership to take accountability for failing to align its business strategy with global climate efforts. Engine No.1’s campaign, supported

Linkedin Linkedin Since February this year, prices of vegetable oils have been fluctuating significantly as sunflower oil supplies were disrupted from the Black Sea region. Until recently, the situation was being managed with other edible oils (already in short supply with the adverse weather and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine), primarily palm oil. In April, Indonesia

Linkedin For a long time post World War II we have had a reasonably stable economic environment to operate in; most changes that have occurred, have done so over a period of time, have often been short-lived, or their impact has been felt gradually. This stability afforded us the luxury to focus solely on developing

Linkedin In the aftermath of the discussions at  COP 26 at Glasgow, and in light of the latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which states – “unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to close to 1.5 °C or even 2 °C will be beyond reach”, there