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3 days ago | 
outlookbusiness.com | Aditi Ray Chowdhury
Afroz Shah has become a global symbol of citizen-led environmental action. Best known for leading the world’s largest beach clean-up at Mumbai’s Versova Beach—a movement that sparked international attention—Shah has since expanded his work to tackle plastic waste across its entire lifecycle.
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5 days ago | 
outlookbusiness.com | Aditi Ray Chowdhury
The verdict is clear. Unless India acts urgently, recycled plastic will form just 11% of the 70.5mn tones of plastic the country is expected to consume annually by 2035—enough to sink its sustainability ambitions in a deluge of waste. This means that nearly nine out of every ten plastic items would likely end up in landfills or leak into the environment.
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1 week ago | 
outlookbusiness.com | Aditi Ray Chowdhury
India's climate policy architecture is dedicated to securing the right of 140 crore citizens to clean energy, Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav said on Thursday. He emphasised that the pathway for India as an emerging economy is about building a robust economy which is in sync with the ecology.
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1 week ago | 
outlookbusiness.com | Aditi Ray Chowdhury
India must focus on indigenous technology development, scale up domestic manufacturing, and build robust innovations in the battery ecosystem, said Dr Jitendra Singh, Minister of State at the Ministry of Science and Technology, on Wednesday.
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2 weeks ago | 
outlookbusiness.com | Aditi Ray Chowdhury
In a world teeming with green hashtags and sustainable choices, the irony is striking: India’s educated, urban elite, led by its shopping-happy Gen Z, is clicking its way to a consumerist high that’s anything but eco-friendly. The name of this modern-day passion? Impulse buying: an overpowering, irresistible urge marked by a persistent desire to buy something right away. If that sounds all too common, it is because that’s precisely what it is.
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2 weeks ago | 
outlookbusiness.com | Aditi Ray Chowdhury
When Coca-Cola quietly switched from virgin to recycled plastic for bottling its beverages in 2023, nothing changed. Not the fizz, not the flavour, not even the price. That’s because recycled plastic had become just as cheap as virgin: a significant tipping point in the global battle against emissions—one that slipped by almost unnoticed. “Recycled plastics for most applications are quite competitive now,” says Ujjwal Desai, co-founder of Lucro Plastecycle.
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1 month ago | 
outlookbusiness.com | Aditi Ray Chowdhury
Around 1.12 lakh smart meters are being installed on a daily basis in the country, said Shashank Mishra, Joint Secretary at Ministry of Power on Tuesday. He further noted that this is a significant number as compared to only 15,000 smart meter installations that was completed in the last year.
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1 month ago | 
outlookbusiness.com | Aditi Ray Chowdhury
The global energy landscape is increasingly shifting toward decarbonisation, and companies are aiming to integrate digital innovation with energy efficiency practices to meet their net-zero targets. Schneider Electric, a leading energy management and digital automation company, recently launched an Open Automation movement, which encourages industries to embrace open automation to help enhance their performance and innovation.
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1 month ago | 
outlookbusiness.com | Aditi Ray Chowdhury
With India racing to build its infrastructure and economy, the choices that are made today will largely define its carbon footprint for decades. It is necessary to find climate solutions that are scalable and uniquely suited to the Indian context. Taking a step in this direction, the Climaforce Fund—a first-of-its-kind initiative by HCL and the India Climate Collaborative (ICC) is using philanthropic capital not just to fund intent, but to drive real, market-level impact.
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1 month ago | 
outlookbusiness.com | Aditi Ray Chowdhury
With an aim to support India’s transition to a greener future and a low-carbon economy, the HCL Group on Wednesday launched an Rs 25 crore philanthropic initiative with a focus on accelerating market-ready climate innovations. The HCL ClimaForce Fund, in collaboration with the India Climate Collaborative (ICC) will look at strengthening over 20 solutions across cooling, buildings and freight mobility-sectors of the country.
