XLRI Students' Blog on Corporate Sustainability

  Introduction “ Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward”- Soren Kierkegaard It is tempting to say and believe that life must always be lived in the moment. To propose that we must all focus on the present and not frivolously waste our time worrying about the future. And for too long, homo sapiens as a species have been doing just that- caring only about the present generation, extracting all they can from this planet, without caring for either the other species that are co-habitants of the earth or even their progeny-the future generations of human beings. But now, it is evident that worrying about the future is a burden that humanity must take to ensure the perpetuation of the human race itself, ensure prosperity for our children, and sustain growth. And the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals are a step in the right direction- to move humanity to the path of a bright and sustainable future. And the first step in ensuring a prosperous f...

The way to the future, together!   Authored by:  Aniket Biswas Burman BJ20007, Anugrah Agnihotri BJ20009, Nandana Varshney BJ20030, Nandu Krishnan A BJ20031, Praveen Kumar BJ20037, Rudrani Bose BJ20043 Sustainable Development Goal: 17- Partnership for Goals Leadership by individual nations and corporations in sustainability is laudable, but to drive transformational changes, companies and countries worldwide need to collaborate on a deeper level. In this blog, we discuss SDG-17: “Partnership for Goals,” which explicitly highlights that sustainable goals can only be achieved by forming meaningful relationships at a local, regional, national, and global level.[1] In a nutshell, the objective of this goal states that developed, developing, and underdeveloped countries and all the stakeholders in these economies must capitalize on the benefits of inclusive partnerships to mitigate the short-term and long-term issues. Sector-specific alliances and initiatives have been promising s...

  Rethinking India’s Journey to achieve SDG 4 objectives - Aayush Khandelwal | BJ20002, Abhishek Kapoor | BJ20003, Krishna Kumar Rathi | BJ20025, Rahul Mandal | BJ20039, Sidharth Monga | BJ20050, Vinayak Lahoty | BJ20060 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Education is pivotal in achieving many of the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. The broad objective of SDG – 4 is to ensure inclusive and equitable, quality education and to promote avenues of lifelong learning opportunities . One in five children in the entire world has no access to schools. [1] Yet, we have seen a record number of children being enrolled in educational institutes across the world, at all levels: primary & secondary. This schooling has, however, not resulted in the learning outcomes that were expected. UNICEF reported in 2019 that about 617 million out of 1 billion school goi...