Latest Articles in Sustainability Development Goals (SDG)
Nutrition In The News: Sharp Diagnoses And Converging Policy Instruments
“Sharpness in the diagnosis is important, as is sharpness in bringing together policy instruments that address those determinants. I believe this is now doable in India because the data is available to do this district by district.”
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Nutrition In the News: Hygiene Matters
To sustain these important nutritional benefits, interventions must incorporate attention to hygiene behaviours, particularly those that prevent harmful faecal pathogens from entering children’s bodies, and depleting and diverting nutrients essential for physical and cognitive growth
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Nutrition In The News: Gender Matters
BW Sustainability’s Neeta Misra Speaks with Sonali Khan of Sesame Workshop India on their work in India, nutrition, missing children and why gender matters
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Bihar: The Paradoxes Of Innovation And Malnutrition
There must be strong accountability for quality implementation and as we learnt in the cases of polio, routine immunization or vitamin-A programs in Bihar, what gets reviewed with strategic use of data specially at the district level gets implemented well at the grass root level.
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Private Sector Interventions In Malnutrition: What You Can Learn From The Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiative
Private Sector Interventions for tackling malnutrition in India. Learning from the Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiative
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Electronic Waste and Sustainable Development Goals: What it means for Businesses in India
Management of e-waste becomes complex, and potentially damaging to economy, society and environment if not done properly, because of presence of many valuable, rare earth, and toxic metals
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Abolishing 377: A Historic Opportunity
The Supreme Court of India has recently completed arguments for a number of petitions challenging Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, an archaic British law from 1860 that criminalises homosexual sex. Given that the Supreme Court upheld the law in 2013, the re-hearing of the case gives new hope for de-criminalization, the assertion of the constitution, human rights, inclusiveness and dignity in India. BW Businessworld's Neeta Misra catches up with Vivek Divan a human rights lawyer who gives us a brief history of the case, the organisations and the movement that got us here.
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Samsung Adds 200 New Smart Class Across Country
Initiative aims to bridge the digital gap between rural and urban India and provide equal opportunities for quality education to children from all backgrounds
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It Is Essential To Use Science & Technology To Increase Productivity: Prof Madhura Swaminathan
BW Businessworld's Neeta Misra catches up with the Chairperson of the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Madhura Swaminathan on the foundations work and why young people need to get involved
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E-Waste In India
India will consume $400 billion worth of electronic goods by 2020 generating a huge growth in end of life products, known as electronic or E-Waste. Electronic Waste creates opportunities for jobs and reducing the country's dependency on imports of metals for manufacturing phones and computers by retaining recycled metals in the country. On the hand the processing of this E-Waste poses huge environmental and health hazards
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Electronic Waste India: Can We Learn From The European Experience?
Neeta Misra speaks with Dr Bernd Kopacek a global expert on E-Waste on the European experience and how India can draw on this at the country ramps up its efforts to responsibly manage electronic waste
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The Fate Of The Planet Is In Our Hands
Even though the damage done to the earth is more or less irreversible, sustained efforts to restore its ecology may avert Armageddon
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Water Crisis, Food Security Amidst Climate Change In India
The continuous rise in the temperature poses a significant impact on water resources. Therefore harnesses the potential for devastating effects on agriculture and food security leading to intensifying poverty
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Ecosystem And Biodiversity Services Worth Almost $125 Trillion Per Year: Dr. Randall Glaholt, IUCN International Biodiversity Expert
Biodiversity is currently being lost at an unprecedented rate due to human activities that degrade or encroach on habitats, increase pollution load, and contribute to climate variability. This rapid declining of biodiversity is a huge problem for entire humanity and this can’t be averted unless relevant stakeholders come together to fight it
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'Need For Integrating Sustainability Education In Academic Institutions'
Corporate management should reflect on the available knowledge and use moral imagination to find strategies that allow for an optimal profit with the least negative internal and external impact on society, environment and future generations
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