The Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) flagship summit, the GreenCo Summit, 2012 titled 'How to GREEN your company', concluded last week, gave a message that today the main driver for a business to go green is profit unlike earlier when preservation of environment was the driving force.
Pradeep Bhargava, Chairman, GreenCo Summit 2012 & Chairman,
CII (WR), said, “Most people have a myth that development and environment can’t co exist. Just like we dispelled another myth of quality and quantity not being compatible, we have to do the same for development and sustainability.” He urged the industry to own up to going green. “The green agenda is ours. Let us not outsource it to the government. We have to solve it ourselves and we have the resources and flexibility to do so. And just as you don’t leave profitability to the government, you shouldn’t leave green to them as well.” The GreenCo rating was initiated by CII with the intention of pushing the green agenda in India. At the summit, ITC Limited, Bhadrachalam unit won the golden plaque while Bengaluru International Airport won the silver plaque for their green initiatives. A CII Environment Directory and GreenCo reference Manual was also released during the summit. S Raghupathy, Executive Director, CII – Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre, said, “The vision of CII is to make India a developed country by 2022. To achieve that India must be a global player in key industries. India must achieve world class status in the green business. The purpose is to enable Indian businesses to pursue world class ratings that will transform green markets. We believe that green rating will impact 1000 companies by 2015.”
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CII (WR), said, “Most people have a myth that development and environment can’t co exist. Just like we dispelled another myth of quality and quantity not being compatible, we have to do the same for development and sustainability.” He urged the industry to own up to going green. “The green agenda is ours. Let us not outsource it to the government. We have to solve it ourselves and we have the resources and flexibility to do so. And just as you don’t leave profitability to the government, you shouldn’t leave green to them as well.” The GreenCo rating was initiated by CII with the intention of pushing the green agenda in India. At the summit, ITC Limited, Bhadrachalam unit won the golden plaque while Bengaluru International Airport won the silver plaque for their green initiatives. A CII Environment Directory and GreenCo reference Manual was also released during the summit. S Raghupathy, Executive Director, CII – Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre, said, “The vision of CII is to make India a developed country by 2022. To achieve that India must be a global player in key industries. India must achieve world class status in the green business. The purpose is to enable Indian businesses to pursue world class ratings that will transform green markets. We believe that green rating will impact 1000 companies by 2015.”
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