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Sustainability and Challenges to its Adoption

By : Amit Patel, Nov 23, 2012

An organization’s commitment towards EHS&S (Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability) involves managing the responsibility towards stakeholders of their businesses by commitment to employee health & safety, compliance to government regulations, following good...

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Beverage, dairy sector spending on waste water treatment to double by 2016

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 22, 2012

Indian dairy product and beverage manufacturers’ spending on waste water treatment solutions is projected to almost double from Rs 278 crore in 2011 to Rs 538 crore in 2016. The push towards more environment-friendly manufacturing processes will be spearheaded by companies’...

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Subject Tags: Business

Capturing energy efficiency market advantages

By : Jyoti Deka, Nov 20, 2012

The market for energy efficiency products and services in India has gained momentum in recent years. This is both due to regulatory impetus and commercial incentives for energy savings as the push for green building and industrial process efficiency is being seen in a new...

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IFC may lend $34.3M to SEI Solar, $40M to PE-backed PTC India Financial Services

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 20, 2012

SEI Solar is majority owned by a South Korean arm of China’s CHINT Solar (Zhejiang) Co; IFC had last year also lent $50M to PTC India Financial Services.

International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector investment arm of the World Bank, is ramping up its...

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MEET UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA'S NEXT DISTRIBUTED SOLAR HOTBED

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 20, 2012

Much attention has been paid to the distributed clean energy revolution brewing in Bihar. But for all the hype generated by Minister Kumar, what's happening next door in Uttar Pradesh may be even more exciting. The state is quickly becoming a hotbed for distributed solar...

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Subject Tags: Business , energy , Labor , Law

Off-Grid Solar Thermal Technologies: Solving India’s Energy Crisis

By : Ashok Paranjape, Nov 15, 2012

The Earth receives more than enough energy from the sun in an hour to supply the world’s energy requirements for the whole year. Unfortunately we harness only a tiny portion of the available solar energy and the world still primarily relies on power plants that burn fossil...

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Ajay Maken inaugurates HUDCO pavilion at IITF

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 15, 2012

Union Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Ajay Maken inaugurated HUDCO Build Tech - 2012 at India International Trade Fair (IITF) here today.

In this exposition, an attempt has been made to showcase a grand display of cost effective and sustainable...

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Subject Tags: Business

Sustainability is a requirement for competitiveness in the long run

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 14, 2012

Can you tell us something about Outokumpu operations in India? What are the current and prospective focus sectors for the organization in India?

We have sales offices in New Delhi and Mumbai, and we have recently set-up a representative office in...

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Shaping investment in small-scale decentralized renewable energy projects

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 9, 2012

Sustainability Outlook spoke to Andrew Affleck, Managing Partner of Armstrong Asset Management

What has been Armstrong Asset Management's role in the Cleantech space? Could you elaborate on your new fund?

The Armstrong South East Asia Clean...

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How to Reinvent Capitalism via Creating Shared Value?

By : Pankaj Arora, Nov 9, 2012

I had the good fortune of attending the Nestle’s Creating Shared Value (CSV) forum earlier this week. Nestle is very clear on what it intends to achieve – find ways and methods by which businesses can play a role in the development of the communities and countries it operates...

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