SPEAKING ON CIRCULAR ECONOMY

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SPEAKING ON CIRCULAR ECONOMY

The new year has kicked off on a couple of bright notes for me - one, I have started on a new role at JLR in the Energy Storage team looking at battery remanufacturing and second life scenarios for the batteries that are no longer useful for electric vehicles (for example, grid energy storage) and second, I have been invited by the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), UK to speak and present my research work done on remanufacturing as part of the overall circular economy agenda at JLR.

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Valuing the services of nature and why it is so important for business

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Valuing the services of nature and why it is so important for business

Natural Capital Coalition with the help of WBCSD and IUCN has brought together several businesses to develop the Natural Capital Protocol, a framework to internalize the externalities that will be tested by 40 leading businesses including The Coca Cola, Hugo Boss, Dow Chemicals, Shell and several others. The testing programme of the framework will be led by Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership (CISL) to understand its robustness.

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Urb-E - Meet the World’s Most Compact E-vehicle

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Urb-E - Meet the World’s Most Compact E-vehicle

Personal Mobility is finally starting to take off. Using the Lithium-ion battery, Urb-E or the world's most compact e-scooty is focused on connecting the last mile - from a train, a bus or even after parking your car. It claims to go for 20 miles on single full charge that takes up to 3 hours. A mini-Tesla is what its founder Grant Delgatti calls it.

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Expectations from Business and Government in context of Climate Change

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Expectations from Business and Government in context of Climate Change

Neither the business by it self or the government on its own can tackle climate change issues. Both need to set their priorities very clear in context of climate change and then act upon them. As Interface Carpet's blog title suggests, we need to "Cut the fluff" and get to some actionable steps. Here are some expectations, when aligned will make some major impacts at policy and business level.

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Formula One and Sustainability: How F1 is Driving Efficiency to New Heights

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Formula One and Sustainability: How F1 is Driving Efficiency to New Heights

In the not so distant past, sustainable or eco-friendly transport meant small fuel efficient engines with the equally smaller sized car bodies. Electric vehicles were called a compromise - in desire, speed and driving range. Prius moved the needle on the hybrids.

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'Change the rules of the game": Summary Primer on Delhi Sustainable Development Summit

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'Change the rules of the game": Summary Primer on Delhi Sustainable Development Summit

ndia has taken upon itself in playing a major role in driving the agenda of these small island states by bringing them on the table year on year at the recently concluded 13th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit organized by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).

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Corporate Perspectives on Resource-Efficient Growth and Developme

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Corporate Perspectives on Resource-Efficient Growth and Developme

"Most CEO's don't understand Sustainability", said John Elkington in a recent interview to Economic Times. Well, that sums up this post and the Corporate Perspectives on Sustainability and Resource-Efficient growth within the Indian context!

Actually, with whatever the CEO's do understand of Sustainability, CSR or Corporate Social Responsibility is a big part of their perspective on the Resource-Efficient growth and development. We need to get this straight - CSR is not Sustainability and it definitely is not Resource-Efficiency!

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7 drivers that help Define the Future We Want

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7 drivers that help Define the Future We Want

Why has it become so important in the recent past that humanity has to define the kind of future it would like to live in?  Because if we don't take the time to define the future we want, we then ought to be prepared with any kind of future handed to us

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