Environment

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    Water sector reform and why efficiency is key to ensuring resilient business supplies

    With England facing a 6 billion litres per day water supply shortfall by 2055 and the water sector undergoing its biggest reform since privatisation, business has an essential role in demand and efficiency to ensure resilient future supplies.

    By Tamara Walters, Waterwise on 17 March 2026

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    Aligning financial flows with the Global Biodiversity Framework: the role of the TNFD

    Nature provides the essential foundations of our global economy and society. As established in the recent assessment from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), all businesses, across all sectors, rely on nature.

    By Valerie Pinkerton, Green Finance Institute on 09 March 2026

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    Solar power waste: a growing problem for India

    India’s solar power industry is set for huge growth as part of efforts to produce cleaner and more reliable energy, but fears are growing about the lack of safe and environmentally-sound options for recycling and recovering the associated waste solar panels.

    By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 10 June 2024

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    What a waste

    Safety Management asked Dharmesh Shah how India can improve its waste management, through the ‘reduce, reuse, recover and recycle’ waste management model.

    By Gajal Gupta on 01 February 2021

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    Waste not, want not

    Swati Singh Sambyal, a Delhi-based waste management expert, gives her views on how India can improve its management of hazardous industrial waste.

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    Global cooperation crucial in fighting climate change, warns Modi

    The world must cooperate to tackle the huge challenges of climate change, terrorism and the pandemic, warned Prime Minister Narendra Modi after India officially assumed the year-long presidency of the influential G20 group of the world’s largest economies.

    By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 06 December 2022

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    E-waste: a toxic legacy

    Although India has laws aimed at ensuring the safe collection and recycling of electronic waste, the vast majority is processed by untrained and unprotected workers in the informal sector – with major implications for their health and the environment.

    By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 12 October 2022

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    Government is off-track to meet its legally binding commitments to protect and improve the environment and must act urgently, says the OEP

    The Office for Environmental Protection is an independent body set up to hold government and public authorities to account for their environmental commitments. A key part of its remit is to annually assess how government is progressing against its legally binding environmental targets and goals in its Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP). The EIP is regarded as government’s roadmap on how it will restore England’s environment.

    By Professor Robbie McDonald, Office for Environmental Protection on 17 March 2026