Sustainability and CSR in India: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Following China, India is the second most populated country in the world. Prior to late 1980s, India’s economic development was sluggish and slow with the annual growth rate around 3.5% from 1950s to 1980s and per capita income growth of 1%. Yet, in the mid-1980s...
The IPCC’ Special Report on Climate Change and Land: Your Questions Answered
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change. Its recent climate change and land report, is the response to the 2016 Panel decision to prepare three Special Reports during the Sixth...
Australia’s Bushfires – Sustainability, SDGs and beyond
“Climate change is real. It is happening right now…” these were the words spoken by renowned actor, producer and environmentalist Leonardo Dicaprio at the Oscars in 2016. This is evident even today as fires rage in the bushlands of Australia in what is recorded as one...
Generation Z & Sustainable Development: A promising future
During the last two year, the media has been obsessed with Greta Thunberg, a Swedish teenage environmental activist on climate change whose campaigning has gained international recognition. The unprecedented activism coming from a teenager says a lot not only about...