ITC is one of India's largest conglomerates with a market capitalization of $35 billion and operations spanning FMCG, hotels, paperboards, packaging, agri-business, and IT. ITC recognizes the severe environmental challenges facing India due to climate change, resource depletion, and waste management issues. As a result, ITC has implemented strategies to adopt a low-carbon growth path, including reducing energy and water consumption, increasing use of renewable energy, expanding forestry projects, and promoting sustainable agriculture and waste recycling. Key initiatives include generating over 38% of energy needs from renewable sources and achieving 100% recycling of wastes from operations.
Sustainable Development: Practices Adopted in Various Industry Sectors in India Pankaj Gaurav
Objectives:
• To do study on the sustainable development practices prevailing in various industry sectors in India and coordination of their strategic programs
• To analyse the role of government, companies and other stakeholders in achieving desirable standards in sustainable development
• To Study the efficacy of Sustainability Index (SI) as an effective tool for measuring sustainable development
Scope:
• Current Scenario
• Global Protocol for sustainable development
• Strategies adopted by various industry sector for Sustainable Development in India
• Strategy for change: Indian Agenda
• Challenges and sectoral barriers for sustainable development
Methodology
Analysis will be done through study of data from secondary sources mentioned below for assessment of sustainability reporting practices.
Data source: Secondary data sources (Companies’ websites for sustainability reports, Articles, Industrial forum like CII conference documents
Management of Congo Basin forest resources: The quest for sustainabilityCIFOR-ICRAF
Robert Nasi, Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees, Agroforestry gives an overview of the evolution of forest management in the Congo Basin. He gave this policy keynote address on 22 May 2013 during a two-day policy and science conference entitled "Sustainable forest management in Central Africa: Yesterday, today and tomorrow", organized by CIFOR and its partners and held in Yaounde, Cameroon.
The future of forests in the low-emissions development agendaCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented at the COP21 side event 'Forests, landscapes, climate & sustainable development – The evidence we need for the future we want' by Markku Kanninen on 3 December 2015.
Presentation by Petrus Gunarso, Tropenbos Indonesia, one several landscape restoration initiatives by the private sector, the global community and local communities in Indonesia.
Sustainable Development: Practices Adopted in Various Industry Sectors in India Pankaj Gaurav
Objectives:
• To do study on the sustainable development practices prevailing in various industry sectors in India and coordination of their strategic programs
• To analyse the role of government, companies and other stakeholders in achieving desirable standards in sustainable development
• To Study the efficacy of Sustainability Index (SI) as an effective tool for measuring sustainable development
Scope:
• Current Scenario
• Global Protocol for sustainable development
• Strategies adopted by various industry sector for Sustainable Development in India
• Strategy for change: Indian Agenda
• Challenges and sectoral barriers for sustainable development
Methodology
Analysis will be done through study of data from secondary sources mentioned below for assessment of sustainability reporting practices.
Data source: Secondary data sources (Companies’ websites for sustainability reports, Articles, Industrial forum like CII conference documents
Management of Congo Basin forest resources: The quest for sustainabilityCIFOR-ICRAF
Robert Nasi, Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees, Agroforestry gives an overview of the evolution of forest management in the Congo Basin. He gave this policy keynote address on 22 May 2013 during a two-day policy and science conference entitled "Sustainable forest management in Central Africa: Yesterday, today and tomorrow", organized by CIFOR and its partners and held in Yaounde, Cameroon.
The future of forests in the low-emissions development agendaCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented at the COP21 side event 'Forests, landscapes, climate & sustainable development – The evidence we need for the future we want' by Markku Kanninen on 3 December 2015.
Presentation by Petrus Gunarso, Tropenbos Indonesia, one several landscape restoration initiatives by the private sector, the global community and local communities in Indonesia.
Reduced emissions from all land uses - A broader perspective on REDD+: presen...SIANI
Seminar on Landscapes in a Carbon Focused World 26 October 2012
SIANI, Focali & Naturskyddsföreningen organized a one-day seminar in Gothenburg.
Summary: Vietnam has been targeted as one the REDD+ pilot program countries with great willingness to mitigate emission from carbon dioxide by avoiding deforestation. However, being a country with a diverse landscape and scattered deforestation and reforestation the REDD+ approach is not obvious. This study suggests a landscape approach to quantify emission from broadening the REDD+ scope to include other relevant landscapes. Land cover conversion and land use change in tropical forest margins affects both carbon stocks and profitability. Where the carbon stocks generally decrease during land use conversion and profitability (from the perspective of the actors) increases, the ratio of these changes is indicative of an opportunity cost of foregoing the change. The OPCOST model of Opportunity Costs Analysis used in this study combines information on land cover types (typical C stock densities and Net Present Value) with a land use change matrix for a certain period. This model has proven to be a very useful tool for providing a science-based carbon offset price estimation that is important for decision making for any conversion of forestland into non-forest land.
Matilda Palm's research included financial mechanisms related to climate and forest as well as landscape rehabilitation in developing countries with a special focus on degraded and marginal lands. Palm has a masters and PhD in physical geography, did a postdoc at World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in Vietnam and is currently doing a postdoc at Physical Resource Theory at Chalmers.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goals through Community EducationESD UNU-IAS
Achieving Sustainable Development Goals through Community Education
Case Study Session
Ms Ireri Bancy, RCE Greater Nairobi
9th African Regional RCE Meeting
5-7 August, 2019, Luyengo, Eswatini
A study on challenges of developing a green growth strategyNabarun Chakraborty
This study concerned about various green growth challenges and corrective measures/framework to deal with it. This research work is carried out with various secondary data available across the web. This presentation has been conducted by me in a UGC sponsored seminar held on 30th April,17 at Rabin Mukherjee College on the topic "GREENING BUSINESS : STEPS TOWARDS GREENER ECONOMY".
Eco enterprises opportunity for greening economy in key sectorsJared Omondi Buoga
A presentation on opportunities for greening the economy in Key Sectors. Presented during the 5th National Youth Conference on Climate change at Mully Children's Home.
"Challenges, opportunities and priorities for transitioning to low emissions agriculture" was presented by Lini Wollenberg at a NUI Galway seminar on January 30, 2020.
Reduced emissions from all land uses - A broader perspective on REDD+: presen...SIANI
Seminar on Landscapes in a Carbon Focused World 26 October 2012
SIANI, Focali & Naturskyddsföreningen organized a one-day seminar in Gothenburg.
Summary: Vietnam has been targeted as one the REDD+ pilot program countries with great willingness to mitigate emission from carbon dioxide by avoiding deforestation. However, being a country with a diverse landscape and scattered deforestation and reforestation the REDD+ approach is not obvious. This study suggests a landscape approach to quantify emission from broadening the REDD+ scope to include other relevant landscapes. Land cover conversion and land use change in tropical forest margins affects both carbon stocks and profitability. Where the carbon stocks generally decrease during land use conversion and profitability (from the perspective of the actors) increases, the ratio of these changes is indicative of an opportunity cost of foregoing the change. The OPCOST model of Opportunity Costs Analysis used in this study combines information on land cover types (typical C stock densities and Net Present Value) with a land use change matrix for a certain period. This model has proven to be a very useful tool for providing a science-based carbon offset price estimation that is important for decision making for any conversion of forestland into non-forest land.
Matilda Palm's research included financial mechanisms related to climate and forest as well as landscape rehabilitation in developing countries with a special focus on degraded and marginal lands. Palm has a masters and PhD in physical geography, did a postdoc at World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in Vietnam and is currently doing a postdoc at Physical Resource Theory at Chalmers.
Click to view the video of the presentation
Achieving Sustainable Development Goals through Community EducationESD UNU-IAS
Achieving Sustainable Development Goals through Community Education
Case Study Session
Ms Ireri Bancy, RCE Greater Nairobi
9th African Regional RCE Meeting
5-7 August, 2019, Luyengo, Eswatini
A study on challenges of developing a green growth strategyNabarun Chakraborty
This study concerned about various green growth challenges and corrective measures/framework to deal with it. This research work is carried out with various secondary data available across the web. This presentation has been conducted by me in a UGC sponsored seminar held on 30th April,17 at Rabin Mukherjee College on the topic "GREENING BUSINESS : STEPS TOWARDS GREENER ECONOMY".
Eco enterprises opportunity for greening economy in key sectorsJared Omondi Buoga
A presentation on opportunities for greening the economy in Key Sectors. Presented during the 5th National Youth Conference on Climate change at Mully Children's Home.
"Challenges, opportunities and priorities for transitioning to low emissions agriculture" was presented by Lini Wollenberg at a NUI Galway seminar on January 30, 2020.
Fundamentals of Environmental Management and sustainable developmentNelson Kuriakose
here are the fundamentals of environmental managment of a business concern and measures for its sustainable development.
I have also briefly explained an example with regards to toyota.
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Aditya Birla Group is an indian multinational conglomerate, headquartered in Mumbai.
It operates in 40 countries with more than 120,000 employees worldwide.
The group interests in sectors such as fibres, metals, filament yarn, branded apparel, chemicals, fertilisers, financial services, telecom, BPO and IT services
Green economy a way to deal with climate changesauravkumar das
The aspiration levels of people have skyrocketed in developing economies like India. Gas guzzling automobiles, account for more than 70% of the pollution & the consequent global warming. Corporate gluttony is on the rise. Viewing business activities through the lens of the triple bottom-line paradigm of people, planet & profit is what will make our society progressive.
We all know about the climate change issues, about how our world is in imminent peril. I intend this artifact to be a change driver targeted at policy makers and business leaders alike, as well as the common people to “grow but sustainably”.
All of the presentations from the webinar on "Enhancing investment in soil health and carbon storage: Frontiers for linking finance and carbon accounting" held on 10 September 2020.
This event is co-organized by CCAFS, The Nature Conservancy, 4 per 1000 Executive Secretariat, World Bank and the Meridian Institute. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3k68hkr
Panelists included:
-Ciniro Costa Jr., CCAFS
-Tim Mealey, Meridian Institute
-Deborah Bossio, The Nature Conservancy
-Martien van Nieuwkoop, World Bank Group
-Keith Paustian, Colorado State University
-Stefan Jirka, Manager LandScale, Verra
-Dan Harburg, Director, Indigo
-William Salas, President of Dagan, Inc
-Aldyen Donnelly, Director of Carbon Economics, Nori
-Debbie Reed, Executive Director of Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (ESMC)
-Beverley Henry, Institute for Future Environments-QUT
-Pamela M. Bachman, Digital Agriculture & Sustainability Lead, The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Bayer
-Ronald Vargas, Global Soil Carbon Partnership - FAO
-Paul Luu, 4per1000
Can there be a city with no landfill? Indeed this is a dream to come true. This presentation provides a tool box of strategies that we could consider to move towards this aspiration. There are not many options left - landfills one day will have to be built on the Moon!!
This presenation was made at the Green Tourism summit in 2015. It explains the enviropreneurship concepts, justifies the importance of engaging in enviropreneurships, paints a picture of the Kenyan national commitments that support this and finally presents practical examples of enviropreneurs in Kenya. The latter are supported by the National Environment Trust Fund (NETFUND)
1. ABOUT ITC
ITC is one of India's foremost private sector companies with a market
capitalisation of US $ 35 billion and a turnover of US $ 7 billion. ITC has a
diversified presence in FMCG, Hotels, Paperboards & Specialty Papers, Packaging,
Agri-Business, and Information Technology. As one of India's most valuable and
respected corporations, ITC is widely perceived to be dedicatedly nation-oriented.
ITC's diversified status originates from its corporate strategy aimed at creating
multiple drivers of growth anchored on its time-tested core competencies: unmatched
distribution reach, superior brand-building capabilities, effective supply chain
management and acknowledged service skills in hoteliering.
Climate change and environmental degradation
The race for unbridled economic growth has left a planet seriously depleted of
environmental resources and perched on the brink of disaster. The world’s ecological
footprint suggests that consumption of natural resources every year is one and a half
times more than the earth’s capacity to regenerate. With increasing population,
people will have only 25%of the resources that were available in 1950. India mirrors
these environmental challenges. With 17% of the world’s population, India accounts
for only 2.4% of the global land mass, 4% of the world’s freshwater resources and
1% of the global forest resources.
The exacerbating impact of climate change and global warming is reflected in the
changed weather patterns and higher temperatures. India is on the edge of a serious
water crisis with more than one third of the districts reeling under severe water-stress
and 99 districts officially deemed drought-prone.
India is also confronted with the challenge of waste management. ITC believed that
the future competitiveness of companies will depend on their ability to adopt
strategies for low carbon growth. Given the growth in infrastructure development in
the country, there is a significant increase in the consumption of natural resources.
2. The establishment of green buildings is a natural response to addressing the need to
conserve and augment environmental resources.
ITC has adopted the following strategies for climate change mitigation and
adaptation:
1. Identify and evaluate climate change risks for each business.
2. Reduce the environmental impact of our processes, products and services and work
towards creating a positive environmental footprint.
• Adopt a low carbon growth path through reduction in specific energy
consumption and enhancing use of renewable energy sources.
• Enlarge our carbon positive footprint through increased carbon sequestration by
expanding forestry projects in wastelands.
• Reduce specific water consumption and augment rainwater harvesting activities
both on site and off site at watershed catchments areas.
• Work towards minimising waste generation, maximising reuse & recycling and
using external post consumer waste as raw material in our units.
3.Creating Sustainable Livelihoods and promoting sustainable agricultural practices.
• ITC has expanded its renewable energy portfolio with more than 38% of its
energy consumption being met from renewable sources.
• As a part of its low carbon and green growth strategy, ITC has spearheaded the
establishment of green buildings which have set benchmarks in energy efficiency,
water conservation and solid waste recycling. All ITC’s super premium luxury
hotels are LEED Platinum certified. The ITC Green Centre has been identified as
the highest rated Platinum Green Building in the world by the US Green Building
Council during its certification in 2011.
3. • ITC’s afforestation programme has greened over 1,25,000 hectares, which has led
to largescale carbon sequestration besides creating over 56 million person days of
employment.
• ITC’s watershed development programme provides soil and moisture
conservation to over 90,000 hectares. This has contributed to the Company’s
water positive status for a decade now.
• ITC’s Wealth out of Waste programme promotes recycling, and source
segregation and also creates awareness among all stakeholders on the benefits of
the Reduce-Reuse and Recycle Approach. This initiative has enabled ITC’s
paperboards business to source and recycle post consumer waste, thereby
contributing to ITC’s solid waste recycling status.
Adopting a Low Carbon Growth Path and a Cleaner Environment Approach
Renewable Energy
ITC commitment to the environment is manifest in its constant endeavour to enlarge its
positive carbon footprint. This is achieved not only through enhanced energy
conservation, but also through use of renewable energy sources and expanding carbon
sequestration through its large scale Social and Farm Forestry Programmes. Apart from
concerted efforts by all units to reduce energy consumption through stringent audits and
benchmarking, ITC is also constantly expanding its renewable energy portfolio. More
than 38% of its energy consumption is now met from renewable sources, and this is
expected to touch 50% in the next 4-5 years.
Improved utilisation of carbon neutral fuels such as biofuels in the Paperboards and
Specialty Papers Business and the commissioning of13.8 MW wind power projects in
Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu contributed to increased utilisation of renewable energy.
Green Hotels
ITC Hotels pioneered the concept of 'Responsible Luxury' in the hospitality industry,
drawing on the strengths of the ITC group's exemplary sustainability practices.
Responsible Luxury personifies an ethos that integrates world-class green practices with
contemporary design elements to deliver the best of luxury in the greenest possible
manner. The Responsible Luxury commitment of ITC Hotels blends elements of nature
to deliver a unique value proposition to guests, conscious of their responsibility to be
planet positive.
4. Today, these unique interventions have made ITC Hotels the 'greenest luxury hotel chain
in the world' with all its premium luxury hotels LEED (Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design) Platinum certified. In pursuit of ITC's commitment to
'Responsible Luxury' investments have been made to provide clean power to ITC's hotels
in Bengaluru, Mumbai and Jaipur. Further investments in wind energy were also made at
the newly built ITC Grand Chola at Chennai.
Waste Recycling
ITC has implemented a number of measures in waste management to create a positive
environmental footprint as part of its enduring commitment to sustainable natural
resource management. All ITC units are mandated to achieve total recycling of waste
generated by their operations. All the units have made significant progress in achieving
this target, recycling over 99.9% of waste generated by its operations.
In 2007, ITC also initiated a unique project – Wealth Out of Waste (WOW) - a
recycling programme to create awareness on the 'Reduce-Reuse-Recycle' approach, and
inculcate the habit of source segregation. Apart from augmenting scarce natural resources
the initiative also generates cost-effective raw materials for the paper, plastics, metal and
glass industries. These initiatives have enabled ITC to remain Solid Waste Recycling
Positive for over 5 years now.
ITC is today an exemplar in sustainability practices; a fact that is manifest in its status of
being the only company in the world of comparable dimensions to be 'carbon positive',
'water positive' and 'solid waste recycling positive'.