Understanding ISO 14001 and related Environmental standards
The management and conservation of the Environment rely greatly on a set of crucial laws, protocols, and standards that have been derived for prescribing certain limits and encouraging effective management and mitigation strategies to various Environmental aspects that may harm the Environment directly or indirectly….
The Environment & Sustainable Development (Based on the Rio Declaration)
Mankind in the past has exploited the Earth’s resources in such a way that the generation today is struggling to cope up with the scarcity and lack of resources. This scarcity is a result of the over-consumption and lack of resource management, especially the non-renewable…
Environmental Ethics and Values
Ethics plays an important role in our society today, and environmental ethics and business ethics must be considered. This has become more prevalent in today’s society. The term “Ethics” itself means the “Combination of Philosophy with Technique”. Definition Environmental ethics is a branch of ethics…
Resource Efficiency & Circular Economy – History & Concept
Developing effective strategies for ensuring that the potential trade-off between growth and environmental well-being can be minimized is a necessary call to action in this era where mankind is struggling to maintain a balance between raw material usage and waste generation to achieve goals towards…
Mental health and COVID-19 : Let’s understand the relationship!
Are Discrimination, Fear, and Stigma also the symptoms of Coronavirus? Coronavirus or COVID-19 disease has affected people from many countries and in January 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared it as a Public Health Emergency. Many experts today believe that it is not just…
Coronavirus – Understanding the Virus with an ‘Evil Crown’!
In December 2019, there was a cluster of pneumonia cases in the city of Wuhan in China. Some of the early cases reported of visiting or working in seafood or live animal market in Wuhan. Investigations found that the disease was caused by a newly…
Solar energy and solar storage batteries – A quick guide
The 21st century is the age where nations worldwide are joining hands in a desperate attempt to save and revive the dying environment. Renewable sources of energy are named so because they are available in abundance in nature and mankind is making the best efforts…
Reasons behind India’s failure at tackling Environmental issues
It would be wrong to state that India and the country’s government is not concerned about the Environment and its related issues like global warming. Some efforts have been initiated by the country in the past few years, but there are however numerous reasons behind…
How can increasing vegetation reduce global warming?
First of all, what is Global warming? Global warming is the unnatural heating of the Earth’s surface and it’s atmosphere due to the excess emission of CO2 and other Greenhouse gases also known as CO2 equivalents (CO2e), that trap the planet’s heat and prevents it from escaping…
Environmental Laws and Human mentality
The balance between Environmental Laws and Human mentality has been a subject of massive debates and discussions over the past decade. Numerous experts and environmental gurus around the globe have stated that the success or failure of an environmental policy depends greatly on the human…
Electronic pollution – The upcoming environmental concern
We all have heard and read about environmental degradation and how human activities are leaving a big scar on the environment and its vital resources today. People and experts around the globe are spreading widespread awareness about air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution and noise…
Ozone hole over Antarctica
We have read and keep reading a lot about the depletion of the Ozone layer and the formation of the Ozone hole over Antarctica. Most of the blogs and posts you find on the internet generally discuss only the causes and consequences of the depletion…
The Air (Prevention and control of pollution) Act – 1981
History India participated in the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm in June 1972 to take appropriate steps for the preservation of the natural resources of the earth which, among other things, include the preservation of the quality of air and…
Ankita Bhatia
Arijit Samajdar
