India’s renewable energy shift promises decentralisation that challenges the historical inequal concentration of power perpetuated by the fossil fuel economy. While coal and oil have strengthened traditionally commercial strongholds – solar, hydro and biogas offer localised ownership models that provide communities access and self-sufficiency. The energy transition presents a rare window for rectifying energy poverty through distributed and people-centric pathways congruent with India’s cooperative ideals. But how do we ensure a successful, just, outcome?
Illuminating the path to sustainable growth in India
Xynteo’s new report “Accelerating India’s Sustainable Human-Centric Growth,” unveils four powerful archetypes, aligned with India’s G20 vision. These archetypes offer more than theoretical constructs; they provide strategic blueprints for collaborative action between governments, businesses, and communities to materialise a shared vision of low-carbon, inclusive, and participatory growth in line with United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Accelerating Green Hydrogen Ambitions For India’s Energy Transition
Green hydrogen adoption in India has the potential for technological innovation, transforming and decarbonising the hard-to-abate industries, creating employment opportunities and further economic development. In order to allow flexibility to the industries embarking on the decarbonisation journey, unique and customised requirements should be met – which requires a robust policy framework taking a systems approach that can benefit the stakeholder across …
A coalition of purpose-driven organisations is pioneering collaborative growth for a sustainable future
With a steady economic growth rate that has eclipsed China’s for the last two years, India will also host heads of state from around the world at the G20 summit in September. With its enhanced profile, the nation also faces a greater responsibility to lead in addressing urgent global challenges and advancing the sustainable development goals. Vikaasa is pioneering the good growth India needs to meet its ambitions.
Collaborating For The Greater Good With Vikaasa
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 …
Satish Pai takes over from Sanjiv Mehta as Chairman of the Vikaasa Executive Committee
Xynteo is thrilled to announce the appointment of Satish Pai, Managing Director, Hindalco Industries, as the new Chair of Vikaasa. Mr Pai succeeds previous Chair Sanjiv Mehta, who over the last five years has been instrumental in shaping Vikaasa’s people and planet-positive impact since its inception in 2017.
What We’ve Learnt About Collaboration From Five Years Of Vikaasa
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 …
Vikaasa’s Project Tej Alliance
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.