Driving Sustainability Education & Research for a Resilient Future
The session aims to explore critical factors involved in the sustainability journey of academic institutes and ways for academic institutions to understand and support needs for strengthening business resilience (resource efficiency, circularity, supply chain transparency, risk prevention and mitigation, among others).
Women, Work and Peace
The session looks at the experience and approach of SEWA, focusing on women. Women’s participation and representation has come out as an integral part of the development process.
Partnership for Nutrition
The session on nutrition aims to highlight the existing engagement models/mechanisms on achieving SDG 2 existing across landscapes and their significance and will provide a platform for public and private players to discuss the opportunities and challenges and design the next steps in a post COVID world.
Circular Design in Apparel: Enabling Circular Economy for Business Resilience
The session discusses how design can enable circular transition in products and processes and boost social inclusion. It further aims to explore how policy can play a role in decision-making.
Public Consultation: Youth for Sustainability (YfS) India Alliance
The youth is ready to take up the ‘shared responsibility’ and engage constructively with the key stakeholders involved, namely, businesses, governments, consumers and the civil society in general.
Tools & Approaches for Business to Build Resilience
The session takes a closer look not at the why but the how - the tools/approaches that business can use to move its sustainability agenda forward. The discussion will focus on four such tools: Standards and certification; Valuation of the intangible benefits of sustainability; Multi-stakeholder initiatives; and Industry forums.
Building Back Better: Improving the Situation of Informal Women Workers in Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery Phase
The session aims to showcase and deliberate on solutions being tested/ implemented to improve the plight of home based workers and to identify key stakeholder partnerships and collaborations to improve their situation.
Towards a Sustainable & Ethical Sandstone Sector in Rajasthan
The session focuses on the sandstone sector in Rajasthan; together with key state specific, national and international stakeholders to explore whether the time is now right to consider an industry-wide, and local stakeholder driven, sustainability protocol.
Plenary: Towards a Responsible Forest Economy
The session anticipates constituting a working group on developing a strategy and an action plan for identifying, fostering and promoting a responsible forest economy.
Enabling Policy Implementation for Promoting Responsible Business in India
With ten years remaining to achieve the SDGs and in support of the Decade of Action on Agenda 2030, this session is the inaugural phase of the Policy CoLAB series, aimed at unpacking existing and expected challenges in the implementation of these policy frameworks.
Reducing Food Loss in India – Challenges and Opportunities
The session brings together the representatives of the food producers, researchers, private sector, Government and non-government organisations (NGOs) to deliberate on the challenges and opportunities for reducing loss in India.
Post-COVID Sustainability Roadmap for MSMEs
The session deep dives into how SMEs have been adopting and supporting the sustainability agenda.
Role of Data and Digitization in Better Preparing for Uncertainty
The session explores the role of data analytics, digital infrastructure and their equitable access in promoting long-term sustainability (reducing risks) in an uncertain world.