This article originally appeared in ET Panache on May 30, 2023 Today, more than ever before, global businesses are realizing the scale and complexity of social and environmental challenges and the threat it poses to their growth. For transformational impact that moves the needle, various stakeholders, from scientists to activists, businesses to artists, policymakers, and consumers, must look beyond their individual priorities and …
Over these past five years, Vikaasa and its inter-company teams have learnt many valuable lessons about what makes collaboration between businesses, across sectors and borders, work. Seeing each project through to impact is a complex undertaking, involving many more stakeholders beyond project teams including funders, implementing organisations, government, intermediaries, and technical experts. Dedicated project teams working alongside collaborators from partner …
Explored the policy landscape and ecosystem, as well as found agribusiness partners in order to recover Europe’s contaminated and abandoned land for sustainable biofuel production. The client, a global energy and petrochemical company, sought to contribute to Europe’s climate commitments and economic recovery by developing sustainable biofuels. The challenge was to produce these biofuels from contaminated and underutilised land (CUL) …
On 28 August, the leaders of Build Ahead’s six partners came together to discuss the need for a cross-sectoral approach and collaborative action to decarbonise the construction value chain. The recently launched Build Ahead coalition is a multi-stakeholder intiative dedicated to collectively tackling the challenge of achieving a net-zero built environment in India. In this wide-ranging discussion on ‘Decarbonising India’s Construction’, aired …
Launched in February 2020, the Project Tej Alliance (PTA) aims to accelerate healthcare innovations and their access to public health channels and private markets. PTA intends to address the systemic challenges of the healthcare innovation ecosystem by forging transformative partnerships, catalysing capital and building a partnership universe of stakeholders from governments, businesses, startups, hospitals, funders, non-profits and other ecosystem enablers.