Going Green With Carbon Neutral & Eco-Friendly Industries - A Step Towards Developing the Best Practices

India should take more steps to mitigate the impact of climate change and to keep the global greenhouse emissions in check, in order to restrict temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees Celsius, said a panel discussion conducted by Business Standard and the World Trade Centre in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday.
The Business Standard Smart Business Event batted for major transitions in the energy sector, and better involvement by the corporate in the sector by taking green initiatives and taking mitigation measures in advance. Quoting the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the meeting said that the world should do more to reduce emissions to keep the globe on track to ensure that temperature will not exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius. It also discussed how India should go ahead if it wants to be carbon neutral by the year 2070 and the role renewable energy has to play in achieving those goals and how business houses should adapt to this requirement.
The topic of discussion was 'Going Green with Carbon Neutral & Eco-friendly Industries - A step towards Developing the Best Practices'. The set of panellists included Swapnasri Sarangi, Team Leader, Foundation for Ecological Security; Siddhanta Das, retired Indian Forest Service Officer and Chairman of Odisha Real Estate Regulatory Authority (former Director-General of Forests in the Government of India); Ambika Prasad Nanda, Head corporate social responsibility (Odisha) of Tata Steel and Abinash Mohanty, Programme Lead in the Risks and Adaptation team at a think tank called the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW).