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Five initiatives were launched by the CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable
Development (CESD) at the Summit:
Working group on ESG Intelligence
CII Climate India Wetland
Action Charter Carbon Capture Utilization and Analytics Eco Edge Coalition (IWC)
and Storage (CCUS) initiative
As a run up & beyond the 17th Sustainability Summit, the Centre organized the following
webinars and virtual sessions:
Shri Sudhanshu Pandey, Secretary, Department of Food
and Public Distribution, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food
and Public Distribution, Government of India Climate Action: Focus on Good Sustainability Track at CII Business Summit
Climate Adaptation Practices
The Sustainability track at the Annual CII Business
The webinar on Climate Action: Summit was organized in May 2022. The track
Focus on Good Climate brought to fore two key areas for deliberations:
Adaptation Practices was Decarbonization and Circular Economy. The
organized in April from 1500-1630 sessions organized under Sustainability track were:
hrs (IST) to celebrate Earth Day.
• Towards Decarbonization: Achieving Net Zero
The webinar focused on how
industries are incorporating and The track on Towards Decarbonization:
implementing climate change Achieving Net Zero was organized in May 2022.
adaptation measures. It also The session explored the steps and solutions to
shared the experience and achieving a zero-carbon future and the role of
highlighted benefits of building businesses and industry in this mission. The
effective adaptation solutions and track has 2 global speakers and 3 national
L to R:H. E. Freddy Svane, Ambassador, Royal Danish
Embassy, New Delhi,Ms Seema Arora, Deputy Director collaborations required for a speakers.
General, Confederation of Indian Industry,H.E. Ritva climate resilient future. There were
Koukku-Ronde, Ambassador, Embassy of Finland, New • Circularity: The Imperative for the Future
DelhiMr C.K. MishraFormer Secretary, Ministry of Environment, 1 global speaker and 4 national
Forest & Climate Change, Government of India
speakers. The track Circularity: The Imperative for the
Future was organised in May 2022. The track
focused on embracing circularity as a key to our
The number of
delegates was 97, sustainable future. There was one global
out of which 26% are speaker and 3 national speakers.
26% female delegates.
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