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The Industry Against Climate Change

Ternium is working on a project that would decrease dioxide emissions of their industrial process by 20% compared to the 2018 base rate. This project consists of implementing new technologies and improvement methods in the crude steel production process. In this specific project, they are contributing to the SDG of ´Responsible Production and Consumption´, by reducing their ecological footprint.

Commitment to Sustainability - for People & Planet

Parama Naturals is a brand of daily essentials for skincare and wellness for all age groups in 100% natural formulations thus promoting good health and well-being. The organic raw materials procured from the marginalized farmers which helps them in having decent work and sustainable economic growth. The extraction of the essential oils is carried through state-of-the art supercritical CO2 technology and wastes are used in dyeing cotton bags for the packaging purposes which ensures sustainable consumption and production.

Freedom

Kalaghar is exquisite Indian crafts, gifts, decor shop, handmade stationery, furnishing, jewelry, art, and much more. It combines traditional arts and skills with modern sensibilities and needs. It is trying to achieve productive work and decent employment for women artists.

Ninoshka - Fashion with a Conscience

Ninoshka products are made of natural dyes such as indigo, pomegranate, marigold, onion peels, coconut, etc. which are earth and skin-friendly. Its founder Ninoshka Alvares-Delaney works closely with handloom weavers from across India and uses handloom fabrics such as Khadi, Malkha, Ikat, and Chanderi among others. She employs dyeing techniques such as tie and dye, bandhani and shibori, and printing methods such as Ajrakh and Kalamkari. She was always interested in fashion from a very young age and was working as a fashion designer while Ashely, her husband, had an interest in green technology. What inspired her was working with the artisans. This category of industries mainly uses traditional skills and is related to tradition, art, and culture. These industries utilize specific skills and locally available raw materials. Rural artisans get inspired by nature all around them. Although their exposure is very limited, they get inspired by things like the sky, they look up at the trees surrounding them and they get inspired by that.

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One Stop Shop

Jain Irrigation is a private listed company that works on innovation in the agricultural sector. It heavily invests in increasing the yield per acre, solar-powered agriculture machinery, and training and helping farmers with best practices.

Recycle To Perfection Align With Nature

Usha Yarns, a green textile company, makes a high-quality recycled pre-dyed yarn out of pre-consumer garment cutting waste and polyester made from recycled PET bottles. Because the yarn is pre-dyed, it saves a lot of water, making it even more environmentally friendly. Their main goal is to develop a long-lasting product with a small environmental footprint.

Giving Fragrance a New Life

HelpUsGreen started with an aim of reducing waste, and adding value to this society. It focuses on converting floral waste into incense sticks. It uses unique kind of packaging which if sowed can be grown into Tulsi product.

Each Drop Counts

Absolute water pvt ltd. is working in the direction to provide clean drinking water, rejuvenate groundwater from the wastewater. It installed the country's 1st green water technology waste STP which provides us clean water without leaving any sludge behind. Along with that, they deploy the ozonation technology to filter water which is completely chemical-free.

Absolute water is working in the direction of a circular future fulfilling the UN SDG goals 6- clean water and sanitation, 9- Industry, Innovation and infrastructure, 12- Responsible consumption and production, and 13- climate change.

Every big business starts small

The company, OldGoa pursues it’s business strategy of introducing products that give consumers health & wellness, OldGoa operates in a manner that not just continues to generate an attractive return for the company, but also minimizes our impact on the environment and helps in replenishing the planet; while lending a helping hand to the community. Its mission is to find the best quality organic food and beauty products and take it to the end-user.

OldGoa believes in giving back to society ensuring socio-economic development of the farmers through different participatory and need-based initiatives in the best interest of the poor and deprived sections of the society so as to help them to become self-reliant and build a better tomorrow for themselves. It also aims at ensuring environmental sustainability through waste management, ecological conservation, and regeneration, protection & regrowth of local coconut species.


Empowering the Lesser Known

Innovation, in any organisation or establishment, remains at the core of development and progressive goals envisioned by the leaders. A unique innovation gives that competitive edge to the companies that cannot be easily replicated by others and help them in becoming market differentiators and many times market leaders. It drives the business to further levels and keeps the engine running for the company.

Mrs Siya, Gowomania, had a similar thought process, leading her to continuously evolve in her journey of growing the company to new heights. The main theme behind her innovation ideology was that she did not want to stick to one thing or one idea. She insisted on making continuous changes in the way they operate and conduct their business and even the products that they offer. An informative conversation with her revealed that she was of the idea that ‘Changes are the only thing that drives innovation and helps in improving our product and brand in the market. Without continuous, progressive changes, we will reach a condition of stalemate’.

A Cleaner Fuel For a Better Tomorrow

Natural Gas is found abundant in nature. It is used as a cleaner fuel alternative to LPG and petroleum products. Natural Gas is used in the City Gas Distribution sector that has lesser CO2 emissions. It has brought innovation to the energy sector and created the infrastructure for the same. Since the price is lesser compared to LPG, it’s affordable and cleaner. This infrastructure is helping to build sustainable cities and communities.

Empowering the Future of Clean Energy

Solaris Energy is a commercial scale solar project finance and development firm. They are responsible for providing business and communities with clean energy that can offset CO2 emissions. They can achieve this while providing a cheaper cost than regular electric companies for businesses. They help solve many of the UN SDGs but mainly the "affordable and clean energy" and "climate action" are the top ones they have a major impact on.

Waste to Wealth

The innovation lies at the heart of Flycatcher Technologies which is the “Bio-digester”, special mention of the versatile “The Rhino Bio-digester."

"The inputs are waste products and output are extremely useful products. One of them is Bio-gas which is a ready-to-use cooking fuel. One can of course also purify it, use it for various other purposes like running an engine with it and multiple other things. The other product is nutritious “Organic Fertilizer”, and we are talking about phosphate-rich organic manure. A lot of synthetic chemical fertilizers have left fields in our country as barren lands so it’s imperative for us to use organic ones," said Mr. Dias.

The UN SDG Goals that Flycatchers has helped to solve are as follows:

SDG 3. Good Health and Well-Being: Disposal of wet waste in biodigester and keeping the environment clean, prevents the growth of disease-causing bacteria and germs.

SDG 6. Clean Water and Sanitation: prevents the disposal of wet waste in water bodies thereby preventing water pollution. Disposal of wet waste in biodigester and keeping the environment clean,

SDG 7. Affordable and Clean Energy: Biogas that is generated as a byproduct is utilized for cooking and heating purpose.

SDG 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth: Provides a good work environment for people in the unorganized sector as well as provides medical and other perks which are above industry standards.

Shifting the Narrative

Filmateria Studios focuses on curating production teams with talent from underrepresented communities in their company. As a minority and woman owned-company, it pushes to spread equality within the media industry.

Recycling Solid Waste Material

Plasticolor SUE is a company that was made with the intention of diminishing the large amount of global waste. Global waste is at a very high point today so it only makes sense to recycle as many materials as possible rather than feed such a large amount of waste to a landfill that will end up getting buried. Plasticolor representative, Carlos Cortes, spoke on how the company is part of a large alliance with other businesses with the same idea in mind. They are teamed up with many other companies and Plasticolor SUE proposed to be the main focus amongst all others.


Wrapping it Green

The business is all about making cutlery and food packing containers from sugar cane pulp obtained after extracting sugarcane juice.

Used as a substitute for aluminum foil and can also be used for heating food items.

After thorough research, they have come up with a solution that can carry wet/liquid food items as well.

A Sweet Innovation

The production process of sugar normally requires utilizing a lot of resources which create a negative impact on the environment. SEDL Mohali came up with ingenious and innovative methods of efficient production processes which involve reducing and reutilizing the energy and other resources required in the manufacturing of sugar which helps reduce the overall environmental impact of the business.

Sex-Ed through Innovative Technology

StandWeSpeak is a Goa-based SexEd-tech initiative founded by Priyal Agarwal. It equips people with the life skills required to take care of their sexual health & well-being and empowers them to make informed decisions about their bodies, relationships, and mental health throughout their lives. It seeks to remove the taboo around sex education and is specially oriented towards women and youth, where they can get information about themselves in form of chart-based content, and also have access to the products and services on offer.

Looking at the World Through the Lens of Sustainability

Our Better Planet is a curated marketplace for conscious consumers who are aware of the impact their purchases have on the environment. Choices, if made wisely, have the potential to enrage or mollify the current environmental, social, and economic problems that the planet is facing. This is the message Our Better Planet is carrying forward.

Serving Sustainability!

Attaware was incorporated with an innovative idea of "Eat your plate". The business started keeping in mind the long-term environmental impacts of single-use utensils. The negative impacts of using pre-existing 'disposables' go way beyond what we can possibly think and thus arose a need for change.