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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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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Rewarding multiple companies for a common sustainability goal

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Rewarding multiple companies for a common sustainability goal

It is often said that sustainability's major challenge is to bring various stakeholders together on the same table - biologists with designers, CEO's with the workers, NGO's with private sector etc. Sustainable development is a systems issue which can’t be treated in isolation. For example, just looking at the increasing financial bottom line is not a healthy indicator of prosperity..

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Book review: Corporation 2020 by Pavan Sukhdev

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Book review: Corporation 2020 by Pavan Sukhdev

Corporation 2020 is a very strong book. It is also much nuanced. It hits directly where wealth and power resides. Not only it challenges the businesses to transform themselves into the corporations of the future, it also challenges the governments to provide enabling conditions for those corporations of the future

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What is Value creation and Good Corporate Governance?

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A fortnight ago I attended the CII ITC's Sustainability Summit but was unable to write on some of the key topics, like how a good corporate governance structure can create both societal as well as business value in the long run. So, here's a brief run-up on that.

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Mainstreaming the Economics of Ecosystems

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The evening session of Day 1 of the CII-ITC Sustainability Summit in Delhi ended with a topic that challenges the current economic system. The Economics of Ecocystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study that came out in 2007 challenged the way we need to value our natural capital. But we still see, that such economics is yet to be adopted in the mainstream corporate world.

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