As the uncertainty over the outcome of the global climate change negotiations continues, carbon consultants are increasingly reinventing their businesses to expand into alternative opportunities in related fields like renewable energy, clean technology and environmental sustainability, irrespective of their carbon component.
Sustainability
Top engineering institutes and business schools across the country are going green with a vengeance. Seeing a growing market for green managers in the country, B-schools and universities are learning fast to offer management lessons in environment-related disciplines.
Leading Indian IT companies are planning to tap the $380-million low-carbon IT market, which is projected to grow at a CAGR of 40% to $4.2 billion by 2017.
When UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon held a press briefing at the UN Global Compact Leaders’ Summit 2010 in New York, he had Ajit Gulabchand, CMD, HCC for company.
Interior India is seeing a war being fought by big businesses with the help of small and marginal farmers for their share in the organic cotton market.
As good environmental practices become the cornerstone of doing business in the developed world, the Wal-Marts, Tescos and IBMs ask for compliance from their suppliers in India.
Driven by supportive government policies, maturing clean technologies and growing investor appetite, India is fast becoming a hub of eco-innovation for people from all kinds of background.
Many Indian companies ranging from power majors like NTPC to diversified groups like Mahindra and Mahindra to software leaders such as Infosys are already on track to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
C K Prahalad’s revised edition of ‘The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid’ carries an update on the private sector’s changing role in poverty alleviation, development of new market opportunities, and evolution of rules that drive the engagement of businesses with emerging markets.
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