Experts’ Corner

By K.Ganesh, Director, Sustainability and Corporate Affairs, Bisleri International Rapid industrialisation and urban expansion have long stressed natural resources and polluted ecosystems. We experience climate change in ecosystems, fading biodiversity, and lives disrupted by extreme weather, health, and economic crises. As food and water security erode and communities grow more vulnerable, we must ask ourselves how we can give back to the environment more than we take from it. The answer to that question will determine whether people can sufficiently restore the planet to sustain themselves.    Linear consumption models, where resources are extracted, used and discarded, place a growing burden on the environment and on communities. They increase dependence on virgin resources, add pressure on stressed water systems, and

As climate, capital, and intelligent technology reshape the conditions of enterprise, sustainability has moved from the edge of the corporate agenda to the centre of how serious companies build value, manage risk, and earn lasting trust. By Dr. Swapnil Sahoo – Assistant Professor, Strategy & Entrepreneurship, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon For a long time, sustainability was treated as a good deed at the edge of business. It appeared in CSR brochures, tree-planting photographs, and the closing pages of annual reports. That era is ending. Sustainability is now entering the heart of strategy, not because it has become fashionable, but because the risks it addresses have entered the heart of business itself. Climate volatility, water stress, fragile supply chains, inequality,

Introduction With AI taking centre stage in shaping Corporation cost structures and business models across industries has resulted in companies addressing issues which have a direct impact on their profit margins and the way of doing business. This further behoves on companies to improve their delivery mechanisms through sustained innovative solutions by bringing about a resilient and growth oriented culture, which has a lot to do with quick  decision making. This has resulted in fuelling innovation, resilience and growth in all functional areas to include CSR and Sustainability as that will give corporations the necessary competitive advantage. It is therefore axiomatic to mention that corporate leaders have to understand what gives them that advantage and report their outcomes as per