We work together with our industry partners on various multi-dimensional, intersecting intervention areas, sustainable alliances & brands to achieve sustainable development.
Adopt Strategies for Clean Production and Transportation
Collaborate at India CEO Forum for Clean Air
Join Cleaner Air - Better Life campaign
Design and shape future 'Cities We Want'
Support farmers for Sustainable Agriculture, Promote Clean Fuels
Collaborate at the Climate Action Program
Support and Fulfill Extended Producer Responsibilities (EPR)
Join Un-plastic Initiative
Segregation & Decentralised waste management
Sustainable Consumption & Production
Adopt Decarbonisation Strategies, Reduce business risks & vulnerabilities
Climate Action Program
Align your Business Models for Circular Economy
Evaluate Natural Capital
Join India Business & Biodiversity Initiative
Biodiversity Business Plans
Prepare Biodiversity Action Plans
Implement Nature-based Solutions
Cleaner air better life is a national initiative of CII for supporting the country-wide transition to clean air by bringing civil society, policymakers, and business leaders on a common platform.
Promote sharing & learning, leading to mainstreaming sustainable management of biological diversity.
A platform, that seeks to minimize externalities of plastics on the environmental, ecological, and social health of our planet.
(#Biz4HR) initiative is an action group of business stakeholders interested in improving human rights record in their value chain.
This initiative aims to showcase the efforts of Indian businesses to the Government and the UN, increase awareness amongst businesses, share best practices and build a tracking mechanism for further improvising industry engagement.
CESD undertakes training and capacity building activities, offers consulting services on various focus areas related to development. The trainings help organisations monitor, quantify outcomes and report on their sustainability goals.
A well-executed sustainability programme can drive growth, create new markets and new business alternatives, and reduce costs and risks. That's why such a programme is essential for businesses and that's where our policies come in.
Publications
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Integration of Biodiversity
A Guidebook for Integration of Biodiversity: Spice Sector in The Western Ghats acts as a guide for the spice sector companies, especially those operating in The Western Ghats of India with respect to biodiversity conservation and sustainable management of natural resources. The Western Ghats are one of the biodiversity hotspots that extend key ecosystem services to the whole of peninsular India. This region also houses many provisioning services that are of economic value. The important aspects covered are the inter-linkages between business and biodiversity, their impacts and dependencies on biodiversity and ecosystem services, and measures for management and monitoring.
Clean Air Better Life
CII Cleaner Air Better Life Report (2020) on Impacts and learning of crop residue management programme
Clean Air Better Life
Clean Industry
CII-Niti Aayog report on clean industry for reducing air pollution from major industrial sources in Delhi-NCR.
CSR & Social Inclusion
Biodiversity
Compendium- Indian Industry Action Towards COVID -19
Integration of Biodiversity
A Guidebook for Integration of Biodiversity: Spice Sector in The Western Ghats acts as a guide for the spice sector companies, especially those operating in The Western Ghats of India with respect to biodiversity conservation and sustainable management of natural resources. The Western Ghats are one of the biodiversity hotspots that extend key ecosystem services to the whole of peninsular India. This region also houses many provisioning services that are of economic value. The important aspects covered are the inter-linkages between business and biodiversity, their impacts and dependencies on biodiversity and ecosystem services, and measures for management and monitoring.
Clean Air Better Life
Business and Human Rights
CII Cleaner Air Better Life Report (2020) on Impacts and learning of crop residue management programme
Integrating Sustainability Into Indian Supply Chains
Clean Air Better Life
Clean Industry
CII-Niti Aayog report on clean industry for reducing air pollution from major industrial sources in Delhi-NCR.
CII- NITI Aayog present policy recommendation to tackle air pollution
CII- NITI Aayog present policy recommendation to tackle air pollution
Combating air pollution: Niti Aayog, CII draft plan for clean industry
Combating air pollution: Niti Aayog, CII draft plan for clean industry
CII Model For Cleaner & Better India?
CII Model For Cleaner & Better India?
Resource efficiency, sustainable development and lean management are buzz words of today and a combination of all three of these is required for successfully running the business while causing minimal adverse impact on environment. My work in CESD has enabled me to understand the interdependence of resource efficiency, sustainable development and lean management upon one another, how they affect top line & bottom line of the business and impact they create in larger perspective of society and environment.
I am a part of the generation that will solve climate challenge. We have already begun to see an increase in disasters and variable weather patterns, globally. It is a crisis that will threaten life as we know it. Despite all of this, there is HOPE. It is my job to use the knowledge that I have regarding the impacts of climate change for motivation.  I believe, CESD is a unique platform, and altogether a catalyst who makes it easier for me to communicate Science to the industry, in most effective way. If we turn our concerns into passion, we will have the motivation that will carry us through the fight for climate stability.
Climate change is no alien but mankind’s own creation, which is getting very hard to address. More and more people are getting affected due to it, directly and indirectly. Reducing emissions, changing business models and building resilience among industry and society will be key to our survival. I believe to all problems there are solutions and that drives my work in the centre. In my last many years of working at here the flexibility to explore new ideas, to find solutions that centre has provided me with further intensifies my passion towards my work.
My work has enabled me to understand and respect nature more profoundly. It has enabled me to learn every day how each one of us can contribute towards restoring and conserving nature and the pertinent role that society and industry can play in creating an equilibrium. It is a wonderful opportunity to work professionally in an area which is also a lifelong passion.
Since my first day at the Centre, I have worked on innovative global concepts which are adapted to the Indian context and taken to Industry. The diversity of initiatives worked upon have enabled me to broaden my perspectives on critical sustainability issues whilst adding value to them. Working at the Centre, gave me an opportunity to put into practice what I had only theoretically learnt.
Living my life in a manner that limits my impact on the environment is something that I have practiced for a long time. My work on circular economy at the Centre enables me to extend my personal belief to a wider audience with the help of data and evidence to assist stakeholders in embracing circularity at all levels.
Across businesses both in India and globally, non-financial disclosures have become indispensable for planning capital allocation and making long term strategic decisions. Today, when companies are transitioning towards adoption of various international frameworks to report their non-financial performances, CESD provides me with an unparalleled opportunity to be at the centre stage of this change by helping organisations navigate the corporate reporting requirements. By setting the stage for a principle-based reporting framework in India, my work contributes towards establishing financial stability and enhancing transparency in corporate disclosures.
I am grateful to CII for providing me an opportunity to work with its one of the core portfolios- Environment Policy Advocacy. This platform, has enabled me to work on varied policy issues ranging from Air Pollution, Plastic Waste to Environment Clearances. While working with CII Environment Policy Advocacy team, my thought process has been re-wired and I see things differently. If I come across a new Environment Policy, I start thinking about its possible impacts on environment, society and businesses. Being an environment professional, I love what I do and my work has empowered me to realise my commitments towards environment into actions, with positive impacts on the same.
IÂ have been travelling with CESD for more than 5 years and when I look back, it takes me to the good learnings I have had these years. Be it in the team of Sustainability Awards by creating awareness on sustainability practices or my role in the Central Marketing Team, creating capacities in business, it gives me immense pleasure to continuously engage with our stakeholders.
Biodiversity is core to sustain life on earth. The play of genes and their complex interactions is what makes various organisms and living components so unique. The secrets of life are what amaze and drive me to work in relation to biodiversity. My work enables me to observe, learn and understand how biodiversity changes the game of society and economy, supporting mankind to build a better improved world.
I have shared professional space in a few more organisations during my career, where, most of the time, I was working on a single profile. My professional journey with CESD provides a versatile platform where I handle things at the back end, task administration, marketing, team management, interacting with & managing stakeholders. Learning through trainings and webinars being organised from time to time by CESD help me to increase my knowledge and skills as well as gives me the confidence to expand my profile in a more practical manner.