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MP plant to help reduce CO2 emissions: LanxessBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 27, 2010
Chemical firm Lanxess India today said the company would be able to reduce about 95,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year following an investment of EUR 7 million for setting up a biomass fuel-based co-generation plant at its Nagda plant in Madhya Pradesh. "By utilising... Read more.. |
PricewaterhouseCoopers: Chopped carbon footprint by 20% in two yearsBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 25, 2010
Where do you start when your company demands a 20% reduction in its carbon footprint? At PricewaterhouseCoopers, it wasn't enough to just pursue high-profile projects, such as building the LEED Gold-certified data center that came online in January. It was just as... Read more.. |
Climate change treaty must address health issues: WHOBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 19, 2010
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Tuesday said next month's climate change conference in Mexico must address health concerns in any legally-binding agreement on mitigating the impacts of global warming as it threatens human health. Health experts from the 11 member... Read more.. Subject Tags: Disaster , Environment , Health , Labor , Social Issues , Technology , Weather , World Health Organization |
Modi moots eco-friendly townships in coastal areaBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 18, 2010
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today mooted a 'Panchvati' scheme for construction of eco-friendly townships in the coastal areas of the state. Inaugurating Godrej Properties Limited's Garden City project here, Mr Modi said though the scheme is yet to take a... Read more.. |
Climate panel agrees 'milestone' reforms, defers othersBy : Preeti Aggarwal, Oct 15, 2010
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has adopted new guidelines on dealing with scientific uncertainties following criticism of its 2007 report. But the panel's meeting in South Korea closed with many other reforms proposed in a recent review being passed to... Read more.. |
Pegasystems India gets carbon positive certificationBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 15, 2010
Pegasystems India, the Indian headquarters and R&D center of Cambridge based Pegasystems, a provider of business process management (BPM) and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, has partnered with Haworth, designer and manufacture of adaptable workspaces to... Read more.. |
Population growth demographics spur climate changeBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 12, 2010
The world is probably going to be a more crowded place by 2100 and demographic changes in this growing population -- how many more people there are, how old they are and where they live -- will affect climate-warming emissions, researchers reported on Monday. Slowing... Read more.. |
Standing on Thin IceBy : Preeti Aggarwal, Oct 11, 2010
India has a prominent presence in the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) but we fail to realise that our country, which has the largest concentration of glaciers outside the polar cap has no university offering a specialised programme in glaciology. And much... Read more.. |
Supply chain sustainability driven more by awareness than third party certificationsBy : sustainabilityo..., Oct 8, 2010
In this interview under our ‘Corporate Sustainability Series’, Sanjib Bezbaroa (Head, Corporate Environment Health & Safety at ITC Ltd.) talks about the drivers for sustainability, emission reduction targets and the status of green procurement in ITC. Sanjib... Read more.. |
M&M feels engaging second and third tier suppliers essential for supply chain sustainability By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 5, 2010
In this next article in the "Corporate Sustainability Series", Beroz Gazdar, Vice President- Group Sustainability in Mahindra and Mahindra, talks about how the company percieves sustainability, their sustainability targets till 2015 and the supply chain initiatives of M&M... Read more.. |