Category: Sustainability
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The Most Read Research Papers on ESG
Financial Times did an article on the most read research papers on ESG and here are the top five from the list. The list is based on the download data on SSRN. Irrespective of whether SSRN download data is a good parameter, the list does contain articles that have been seminal pieces on ESG. On…
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Biodiversity Financing- Going Beyond Public Finance
Biodiversity conservation and protection needs urgent financing push. With yearly financing gap of more than USD 500 billion, we need to look beyond the public financing and leverage biodiversity offsets, green bonds and other innovative instruments.
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Transforming Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for Achieving our SDGs
The Covid-19 pandemic is a big setback to one of the most ambitious goals humanity has ever set for itself: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). According to a recent study by UNDP, even in a non-Covid scenario, the global community would be struggling to achieve the SDGs by their 2030 deadline. The long-term impact of…
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Doubling Farmers’ Income – Making it a reality
Our Prime Minister’s call to double the farmers’s income1 by 2022 is an opportune call as the growth in farmers’ income has stagnated and it caused significant distress to farmers. Doubling the farmers’ income by 2020, if it is achieved, would be a remarkable achievement as it had not been achieved in last 3 decades.…
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Addressing Household Air Pollution and Celebrating Cooking : Dharma Chef
Household Air Pollution (HAP) is emerging as a major health risk and is responsible for more than 4.3 million premature deaths globally every year. The biggest and most common contributor to HAP is the use of biomass fuels for cooking in our traditional cookstoves. Availability of free biomass, free traditional cookstoves, and our age-old and…
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