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One of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters is trying to clean up. Global venture capitalists looking to put their money to work should keep an eye on it. The Indian capital region of Delhi is abuzz with activity. Rusty metal signs that tout "Electric Charging" stand out, along with stations that power electric two-and-three wheelers.

Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Shri Bhupender Yadav addresses the Inaugural session of Sustainable Mountain Development Summit-XI. Ease of living is as important as Ease of doing business: Shri Yadav.

Sustainable manufacturing demands a better future for the well-being, development and safety of the community.

Hindustan Unilever Limited today announced that its Dapada factory has been recognised as a Sustainability Lighthouse by the World Economic Forum.

"A metal atom is a metal atom," says Alan Nelson, senior vice president for battery materials at Redwood Materials, a company that specializes in recycling.

The European Investment Bank, EIB, is one of the world's biggest players when it comes to financing the sustainable transition.

Since the acronym "ESG" was coined in 2005, and until recently, its fortunes were steadily growing. To take one example, there has been a fivefold growth in internet searches for ESG since 2019, even as searches for "CSR"-an earlier area of focus more reflective of corporate engagement than changes to a core business model-have declined.

Ancient microbial life on Mars could have destroyed the planet's atmosphere through climate change, which ultimately led to its extinction, new research has suggested.

It has also snagged a spot on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's 100 of the world's worst invasive alien species and emerged as one of the biggest threats to the indigenous snow trout and 150 other native fish species found in the Himalayan waters.

A good chunk of real estate managers' portfolios are currently managed under ESG principles, according to data from Pensions & Investments' annual real estate money manager survey.

From a tick-box to a business imperative, ESG is a crucial topic in boardrooms, impacting business decisions.

The students pursuing studies in fashion and the new generation of designers are the practitioners of sustainable fashion in the future.

Shoppers once selected products based simply on price or brand, but now attributes such as whether goods are "Sustainable," "Climate-friendly," "Green," and "Eco-friendly" are readily becoming part of the consideration.

Since 26 September, mysterious leaks have appeared in the underwater Nord Stream gas pipelines - which run from Russia to Germany - close to the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea.

Three weeks into a refinery strike that has caused fuel shortages across the country, tens of thousands of protesters marched in Paris on Sunday, adding to a growing picture of defiance and anger about inflation.

New Zealand's government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change.

The documentary features voices representing Indigenous communities, people living in poverty, young people and the science community, and follows their journey to Rome to meet with the pope and share their stories on the planetary crisis and the toll it's taking on nature and people.

Google and YouTube on Thursday announced a new policy that prohibits climate deniers from being able to monetize their content on its platforms via ads or creator payments. Why it matters: It's one of the most aggressive measures any major tech platform has taken to combat climate change misinformation.

Many species are slowly suffocating as oxygen leaches out of the seas.

Global companies are in various stages of developing programs focused on environmental, social, and governance compliance, while concerns in the US around ESG compliance are picking up as well.

Over the past two decades, a cascading series of global studies, white papers and United Nations development goals has led to the adoption of long-term benchmarks for corporate environmental, social and governance initiatives.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Tuesday addressed the issue of businesses that exaggerate environmental, social and governance credentials, arguing that though corporate sustainability credentials are often controversial, they are still critical for assessing whether to invest in a company.

On the eve of World Sustainability Day, IIT Madras launched three events - the 'Punch the Plastic' campaign, a monkey-proof dustbin hackathon, and a sustainability champions contest.

A government panel has approved an application seeking environmental clearance of indigenously developed genetically modified mustard seeds, experts said, paving the way for commercial use of the country's first GM food crop. The Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee, a unit of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, has approved the GM mustard seeds, said a top scientist and an agricultural expert in India.

Using four lakh bags of single-use plastic, Amritsar native Ruhani Verma has built what she claims is India's first carbon-negative public toilet, made of 100 per cent recycled or recyclable material.

IIT-Bombay is the best educational institution in India in the inaugural QS World University Rankings: Sustainability released today. A total of 15 Indian universities ranked in the list with the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay featuring in the 281-300 rank range, followed by IIT-Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University at the third rank. QS World University Rankings: Sustainability ranking is a new framework to evaluate how universities are taking action to tackle the world's most pressing environmental and social issues.

'Faces of Climate Resilience' - a short documentary series of 16 films - pans in on the stories of communities in five States adapting to climate change Women from 10 self-help groups from Tandahara village in Odisha's Puri district have been nurturing a forest, which will provide a measure of protection from the water, especially seawater intrusion, that destroys their fields.

In the land of natural fibers, fashion is slowly evolving to become more inclusive and sustainable across India. Considered the backbone of India's textile industry, despite competition from synthetic versions, the demand for natural fibers is increasing steadily. Natural fiber composites have varied uses in the textile, packaging, furnishing, building, and construction industries.

Reduced green investment will put a spanner in the efforts to fast track solutions for climate change.

Those two functions are Monitoring and certification of a company's Environmental, Social, and Governance score, or the ESG score, and finding a solution for the bankless and providing them with identification.

Twenty young women from Chennai are up against a steep challenge: Stopping a juggernaut, an impersonal force that we have unleashed on ourselves: Climate change.

Amid a climate weighed down with uncertainties and financial challenges, the last few years have demonstrated intelligence and resilience by Indian investors who have tightly held on to their existing investment portfolio and not taken panic-stricken decisions.

Their study has found that climate change is leading to an increase in cloud cover, and this, in turn, is shrinking the difference between the daily maximum and minimum temperatures across the globe.

Bharat Soka Gakkai: Bharat Soka Gakkai, the Indian arm of Soka Gakkai International, organised a peace and sustainability conclave to discover a path to revive humanity.

The finance ministry has advised banks to support those micro, small and medium enterprises that have adopted certain sustainability standards for manufacturing with a raft of incentives, including cheaper credit, at a time when interest rates are on the rise, official and banking sources told FE. The move is part of the government's broader efforts to encourage MSMEs to become "Responsible manufacturers" and improve credit flow to these units that account for a bulk of the country's job creation.

More than a year on, his wife mourns the unhappy collision of circumstances that led her 68-year-old husband quite literally into the jaws of death - climate change that turned the waters saline, making agriculture unviable, shrinking tiger habitat in the ecologically fragile region and the Covid aftermath that robbed her children of their work.

Emperor penguins