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YES BANK becomes the first Indian bank to join World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

  Sustainable Banking for a Sustainable Economy   Geneva, 18 January 2016:  Today, YES BANK, India’s fifth largest private sector bank, joins nearly 200 forward-thinking companies across the globe as the newest member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). YES BANK is the first Indian bank to become a member of this …

St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, goes Solar

SXC’s response to COP21 – harnessing the power of the Sun to spread the light of Nihil Ultra St. Xavier’s College (SXC), Kolkata, has been the vanguard of Sustainable Living for more than a century and a half now – that is, even before the term “sustainability” was coined for use in the context as …

Environmental NGOs Launch CCS Report at COP21

Proven emissions-reduction technology plays vital role in low-carbon future (PARIS) December 8, 2015 – Carbon capture and storage technology, which can dramatically reduce carbon pollution from industry and biomass facilities, as well as gas- and coal-fired power plants, has made great strides, but government policies are urgently needed if this piece of the climate mitigation …

European steel industry hopes for global agreement at COP21

Brussels/Paris, 1 December 2015 – The COP21 climate change conference has just begun, so the European Steel Association (EUROFER) reasserts the hope that negotiators can come to a comprehensive and global agreement. A legally binding arrangement with comparable commitments and obligations has the greatest potential to tackle the climate change challenge. “EUROFER calls on policy …