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...

Blog Authors:  Devansh Tripathi, Job Joseph, Lakshay Arora, Rishabh Agarwal, Tridib Banerjee, V Lohitha, Wesley John Sunil Group 2, Section D, PGDM (BM) 2020-22 Batch Introduction Quality Education is the fourth pillar of the seventeen sustainable development goals outlined by the United Nations in September 2015. Over the globe, inequitable distribution of wealth, religious disturbances, and social unrest lead to an enormous difference in the quality of education received by children. Some do not even have access to it or are forced to leave academic institutions midway to join the workforce or get married. These are not issues restricted by geographical boundaries but prevalent across various parts of the globe. The seven targets to achieve the outcome of fair education include providing free schooling & excellent pre-primary education for everyone, inexpensive higher education, imbibing the workforce with pertinent skills to achieve monetary success, eradication of all unfai...