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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.

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Accelerating Green Hydrogen ambitions for India’s energy transition

Green Hydrogen is key to achieve net-zero commitments and to lay out this low-carbon pathways for industrial decarbonisation, we need to a robust policy framework that supports the entire value chain. Technip Energies as part of Vikaasa coalition, aims to co-create and collaborate with government in developing policies that fit the purpose in enabling the green hydrogen ecosystem in India.

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Inclusion

Regenerating for the people and at scale: A tale of three cities, part 3

Across the last nine months the Leadership Vanguard cohort of change makers have travelled the world to investigate the big challenges we face as a global society and the threat to the planetary ecosystem in which we live. In this final Field Report, we travel to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) where the catalysts explore 'how we can go from these small seeds to initiatives that do truly scale up, wide and deep?'

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Sustainability

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.

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Sustainability

Why embodied carbon should be included in green building ratings in India

Almost a third of the built environment’s carbon footprint is formed by embodied carbon, primarily from the manufacturing of steel and cement. Today, green building ratings have a low focus on these emissions – giving an incomplete impression of the sustainability of construction. Our paper examines why this needs to be addressed and how we can incentivise the construction industry to take positive action.

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Sustainability

Collaborating for the greater good with Vikaasa

Advisory firm Xynteo is helping businesses find new ways to shift the needle and address challenges by embracing cross-sectoral partnerships. 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. Vikaasa, a coalition of forward-leaning organisations launched in 2017 is accelerating India’s development goals.

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Sustainability

Pledges and commitments are no longer sufficient when it comes to net zero

Each year, World Environment Day is a moment to reflect, challenge ourselves, and recommit to taking planet-positive action. But merely ‘pledging’ is no longer sufficient. As we approach 2030, leaders and organisations must take tangible actions and provide transparent strategies to effectively reduce their environmental impact and work towards a sustainable planet.

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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.

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Leadership

Regenerating for resilience: A tale of three cities, part 2

What does this idea of ‘regenerative business’ mean in practice, both for individual leaders, their organisations and those they serve? In the second of three Field Reports, our cohort of Leadership Vanguard change-makers travelled to Cebu in the Philippines to investigate a very different perspective on ‘place’, regeneration and resilience.

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Collaboration

What we've learnt about collaboration from five years of Vikaasa

As Vikaasa, Xynteo and our partners celebrate five years of people and planet-positive impact, Vipul Kumar (Managing Director, Vikaasa) looks back and the key learnings the coalition has uncovered around effective cross-sector collaboration.

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Leadership

We need a ‘greatest generation’ of business leaders to deliver net zero

The emerging generation of business leaders are going to be asked to do the impossible – deliver on their forebear’s net zero commitments. But in most cases their careers haven’t armed them with the knowledge, tools, teams and stakeholder support needed. We a new ‘greatest generation’ for the future. Let's help them create impact.

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Leadership

Experiencing purpose-led regeneration: A tale of three cities

What does this idea of ‘regenerative business’ mean in practice, both for individual leaders, their organisations and those they serve? Across the last nine months the Leadership Vanguard has taken 25 change-making business leaders through a programme of experiences in three cities, London, Cebu and Rio. In the first of three Field Reports, The Leadership Vanguard Team explore the revival of what is often referred to as the Commons: spaces and resources that are owned, shared and managed for the collective good, without privilege or exclusion.

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News

Xynteo announces majority investment by Leon Capital

Xynteo, a strategic advisory firm exclusively dedicated to providing sustainability and energy transition services to some of the world’s largest companies, today announced a majority investment by funds advised by Leon Capital LLP (Leon Capital). The family of the founder Osvald Bjelland remains a minority shareholder. The agreement includes the creation of an employee partnership model, with senior employees now becoming owners of the business.

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