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The author is correspondent at BW Businessworld, he has a keen interest in sustainability and environmental economics
The waste management system in India is defined by poverty, excess, inefficiencies, exploitation, caste-barriers and environmental degradation. From the existence of manual scavengers from lower caste-communities to rag-pickers in India who benefit from the black, underbelly market of Solid Waste Management, to the increasing number of landfills on the outskirts of cities fuelled by consumerism, there need to be incentives on a grass-root level for Waste Management like Green Credits for many reasons
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Mr Mehta urged industry to recommend means to make eco-mark an inclusive system
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The company is already carbon positive, water positive, recycling positive, and gets 48 per cent of its energy from renewable sources
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"We should also become whistle-blowers, if we see something wrong, we have got to talk about it, for example, if someone is evading taxes, it should be brought to notice rather than cribbing and crying that it is someone else’s responsibility.” Piyush Goyal
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As the safest country in the European Union, and the fifth safest country in the world, Cyprus is an attractive place to do business and a unique place to reside
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The quality of the air we breathe is an important indicator of life expectancy, and with rising air pollution, it becomes integral to know about the various dimensions of air quality and pollution, especially with respect to the upcoming quarter, which will see a rise in pollutants. In an exclusive interview with BW Businessworld, Vinay Pathak, Asia Pacific Subject Matter Expert for Hearing Portfolio of 3M Personal Safety Division General Manager & Technical Head for 3M India Personal Safety Division, discusses air pollution and its impact, and potential ways to protect citizens from harm
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"With 700 million going to get into urbanization, 17% of the world's population, with just 4% of the water resources, India faces a major challenge when it comes to water management", said Kant, adding that, "84% our water goes into irrigation"
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It was clear in 2015 that India is going to be an enabler of the Paris Agreements. Paris Agreements showed that there is diffused climate leadership
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Textile production in India contributes 4 per cent of GDP and 15 per cent of exports and is one of the largest generators of employment, yet Indian textiles lack export competitiveness
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We need a regulatory framework to kick in. One of the cases is the point is RERA, and we hope that’s successful. The regulatory framework being successful would lead to demand-supply gap being met within the timeframe we desire. The framework is in place when we are doing our forward planning, says Chandrajit Banerjee, CII
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