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Managing our Natural Resources for the Benefit of All

To achieve a sustainable future, the world clearly has two priorities that must come before all others. The first is to ensure that all citizens have access to the means of satisfying their basic needs. The second is to evolve practices that bring the environmental resource base on which their …

mCommerce & Training the Trainers – Potential Game Changers in Skill Development

There are 1.2 billion people in the world trapped in poverty1, and surviving on less than 1$ a day, and roughly a third of them live in India. For many of these individuals, access to skill development and hence subsequently gainful employment is one of the primary drivers that can …

Waste does Matter

MSW generation rates are usually influenced by economic development, degree of industrialisation, public habits and local climate. Generally, higher the economic development and rate of urbanisation, the greater is the amount of solid waste produced. Income level and urbanisation are highly correlated. With increasing disposable incomes and living standards, consumption …

Role of Non-state actors in promoting Green Public Procurement

The answer to the question Public procurement rules in India are rather complex and a labyrinth of clauses and interjecting sub-clauses. In a diverse country like India, assimilation and dissemination of public procurement data is ridden by inefficiencies and imperviousness. The national government has tried to address the impervious nature …

Green Public Procurement – A Potential Game Changer for India

Green Public Procurement (GPP) may be simply defined as “public procurement for a better environment”. Green Public Procurement in other words can also be understood as a process whereby government and its agencies seek to procure goods, services and works with a reduced environmental impact throughout their life-cycle when compared …

Managing our Resources in a Sustainable Way

Natural resource management is the way we deal with managing the resources that we have while taking care of the people and the planet. The resources we have are finite and cannot be generated overnight. Every year we extract 55 billion tons of bio-mass, fossil energy, metal and minerals from …