Hear the drumbeat, it is green

From the PM, to regulators, to those setting global standards, to investors, to the communities companies operate in, to the millennials who will be their future customers, the drumbeat is changing

India, more specifically corporate India, is slowly being made to march to the drumbeat of the Paris Agreement — it just does not know this. The most recent pointer was at the virtual climate summit, where the prime minister reaffirmed India’s commitment to achieving the goal of keeping global warming well below 2˚C. In fact, he indicated that India will exceed its commitments.

Before this, the prime minister at a virtual Investors Roundtable on November 5 had said: “Today, investors are moving towards companies which have a high environmental, social and governance score. India already has systems and companies which rank