XLRI Students' Blog on Corporate Sustainability

  Blog Authors:  Group 2, Section D, PGDM (BM) 2020-22 Batch Devansh Tripathi, Job Joseph, Lakshay Arora, Rishabh Agarwal, Tridib Banerjee, V Lohitha, Wesley John Sunil Introduction Affordable and Clean energy is the seventh pillar of the seventeen sustainable development goals outlined by the United Nations in September 2015. Over the years, rampant use of fossil fuel sourced energy has enacted a terrible price on the planet, the effects ranging from air pollution to oil spills to adverse health impacts in ground-level workers such as coal miners. The 5 targets to guarantee access to cost-effective, dependable, and green energy for all by 2030 include widespread access to clean energy; increase worldwide proportion of renewable energy; double the rate of enhancement in energy efficiency; encourage access to research, technology, and investments in modern energy; and expand and upgrade energy services in developing countries. Both governments and private players have also star...

  Gender equality Right from the beginning of human evolution and civilization, women had to face the sharp end of the stick when it came to liberal progress. Some of it made sense back then, some of it was harakiri, but the sheer ignorance that we have had towards 50% of the women population for so many years to date, is absurd, to say the least. " Gender equality, also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing different behaviors, aspirations and needs equally, regardless of gender ," is the official definition by UNICEF. If this is followed holistically, we empower and elevate half of the population. Why is this still a foggy dream? The answer lies inhabit. The habit of the status quo, which is patriarchal, misogynistic, and non-liberal, is ingrained in the minds of people. Education and the ...