XLRI Students' Blog on Corporate Sustainability

    Introduction to SDG The death of a father can be a difficult time to go through in anybody’s life. Having to take up the responsibility of your family, as an uneducated woman of 18 years of age will make it much more difficult. And that is exactly what Seema Kumari from Wair, UP, had to go through. And yet, she rose spectacularly. She now runs a tailoring centre in her village, and handles everything, makes bank transactions, and is upskilling her tailoring venture using measurements. She thanks Shiksha+, an adult education program of the Shiv Nadar Foundation. “Seema has changed for good. Her overall personality has also transformed. She is more confident”, says Baby Gola, her former teacher. That is the kind of impact education can have on a person’s life. Seema’s story is one of millions who have uplifted themselves through education. Education has the potential to transform one’s personality, skill sets, interactions with others, and thus drastically improve one’s outl...

Introduction             The United Nations in 2015 adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) that it hopes we will achieve by 2030 through the collective action of all countries. The stated goal of SDGs, as envisioned by the UN, is to serve as "the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. SDG 13, in particular, focuses on Climate Action [1] . The global average temperatures in 2017 were 0.9°C higher than the mean of temperatures recorded from 1951 to 1980. The Sea level has been rising at roughly twice the pace of the long-term average. Both of these trends are worrying. As temperatures grow, the agricultural yields suffer, rainfall becomes less predictable, storms become more severe, and freshwater sources become stressed. All of this means that the prices of food will go up. This will affect all of us, but the poor will suffer the most. The same is the case with rising sea levels. Prese...