The document discusses sustainability and corporate responsibility. It notes that a recent UN report warned of a global crisis by 2040 if major action is not taken on climate change. It provides examples of companies like Apple and Tesla that have taken sustainability initiatives without waiting for regulations. The document emphasizes that profitability does not need to be compromised for sustainability. It also discusses the problem of air pollution, noting it causes millions of deaths annually including over a million in India. The document expresses that as an energy company, environmental goals cannot be compromised and sustainability is a key consideration in their projects and operations.
3. • Working Towards a World Where Sustainability
and Innovation Walk Hand-in-Hand
• This World Environment Day, coming in the
backdrop of the recent climate change report released
by the UN in 2018, is a significant one. The report
foresees a global crisis by 2040 if we don’t take major
action at a policy and corporate level.
4. • Responsible companies have already began spurring
into action on their own without waiting for
regulations. Apple, for instance, has made its
operations run off renewable energy and is opening
its advanced recycling technology intelligence for
others to adapt. On similar lines, electric vehicle
making lodestar Tesla, famously made all its patents
publicly available as far back as 2014. Huge
corporations ranging from Intel to Walmart are all
stepping up the game, showing that profitability
doesn’t need to be compromised in pursuit of
sustainability.
5. • This year’s theme is air pollution, and it’s a timely
reminder that every year, it causes 7 million
deaths globally. In India, this should strike home
hard since many of our major cities frequent the
“most polluted cities” lists (22 of the top 30) and
1.2 million of our countrymen succumb to air
pollution-related deaths.
6. • As a responsible energy company, we know we cannot
compromise on environmental goals while achieving
the ones at global level. Which is why conservation
and caring for the environment is our second nature.
It’s often a starting point of the discussion more than
an afterthought. There have been quite a few
techniques, that have proved useful to us in causing
minimum impact on the environment during the
execution phases across our various projects. We hope
that these techniques inspire others too, to look at
sustainable growth and development.
