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SGS India launched “First Product Carbon Footprint Marks”

By : Sustainability ..., Jan 15, 2013

Climate Change & Global Warming is the growing concerns for the gradual increase in temperature of the Earth's surface that has worsened since the industrial revolution. 

With more than 70,000 employees in 1350 global locations providing services across industries...

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Parker Hannifin India sets up Rs 100-cr factory near Chennai

By : Sustainability ..., Jan 9, 2013

Parker Hannifin India, a part of the Rs 71,500-crore Parker Hannifin Corporation of the US, has set up a Rs 100-crore factory near Chennai to manufacture components for a wide range of industries.

Thomas Williams, Executive Vice-President and Operating Officer, Parker...

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World water experts to lead search for solutions at the International Water Summit 2013

By : Sustainability ..., Jan 8, 2013

Press release

World water experts to lead search for solutions at the International Water Summit 2013

Influential organizations and water innovators confirm their attendance at the International Water Summit from 15 – 17 January to discuss the water-energy nexus...

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Wind energy will play a major part in shaping India's future: Tulsi Tanti

By : Sustainability ..., Jan 4, 2013

For those in the renewable energy sector, the end of every year is marked by the conclusion of the UN COP (Conference of Parties) discussions. We prepare, we hope and yet, each year, we watch a repeat performance of the previous years; a lastminute marathon of debates which...

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Subject Tags: Business , energy , India

Technopark trying for a green tag

By : Sustainability ..., Jan 1, 2013

The Technopark campus here is preparing to acquire ‘green zone’ status even as the ambitious phase-3 expansion project is set to be commissioned in another six to eight months, doubling the number of employees and adding one million sq ft of built-up area.

The...

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Subject Tags: Business , Labor , Law , Technology

‘Will ask FinMin for tax break on CSR’

By : Sustainability ..., Dec 31, 2012

Looking visibly relaxed after the Lok Sabha in December cleared the Companies Bill that has been 11 years in the making,corporate affairs minister Sachin Pilot shared his views with the Indian Express on some of the controversial provisions of the Bill and how he intends to...

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Bangalore: Panel nod for waste unit in Mandur

By : Sustainability ..., Dec 29, 2012

Even as the technical expert committee on solid waste management (SWM) is busy shortlisting 36 companies for setting up waste processing units, the health committee of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to give the go-ahead to a company to set up...

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Subject Tags: Business

E.P.A. Chief Is Stepping Down After 4-Year Term

By : Sustainability ..., Dec 28, 2012

Lisa P. Jackson is stepping down as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency after a four-year tenure that began with high hopes of sweeping action to address climate change and other environmental ills but ended with a series of rear-guard actions to defend the...

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Subject Tags: Business , Labor , Law

IIFCL keen to fund renewable energy projects

By : Sustainability ..., Dec 21, 2012

India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd awaits final nod to launch the credit enhancement scheme next month.

It is also seeking a bigger role in lending to the country’s renewable energy sector.

Harsh Kumar Bhanwala, Executive Director, IIFCL, said the...

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Pollution control body for ban on diesel vehicles in Delhi

By : Sustainability ..., Dec 19, 2012

Government today informed the Lok Sabha that Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) has recommended that there is need to ban diesel vehicles in Delhi to prevent emission of high smoke particles. 

"The EPCA in a report in 2012 has stated that...

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