NEW DELHI – Pollution ends up lowering labour productivity and consumer footfall. It leads to premature mortality, lowers asset productivity as well as increases health expenses and welfare losses, according to the report by consulting firm Dalberg Advisors in partnership with Clean Air Fund and the CII
Air pollution costs Indian businesses ₹7 lakh crore ($95 billion), or an equivalent to 3% of India’s GDP, annually, according to a report by consulting firm Dalberg Advisors in partnership with Clean Air Fund and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). The costs manifest in six ways. The pollution ends up lowering labour productivity and consumer footfall. It leads to premature mortality, lowers asset productivity as well as increases health expenses and welfare losses, according to the report. Out of these, employee productivity, consumer footfall and premature mortality impact businesses directly.
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It’s Indonesia’s ‘Silicon Valley’, but has Algorithm Hill done the maths? An aerial photo of Apple’s new campus building in Silicon Valley. File photo
Indonesia s long-held ambitions for creating a tech hub in the image of Silicon Valley appear to be taking shape, with work about to start on a multibillion-dollar project that will cover 888 hectares in West Java and be known as Algorithm Hill.
There s just one problem, say critics: building a sprawling park, however well-financed, will do little to replicate the success of America s tech champion without fundamental improvements to the country s infrastructure and education system.
BATHINDA: As the world gears up for the global leaders’ summit on climate change, called by US president Joe Biden, it is heartening that climate change is back on the agenda. But the world is back to discussing all the wrong things; as we are in danger of once again losing the opportunity to drive home the need for ambition and equity in climate change action,” said Sunita Narain, director general, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), at an online webinar and media briefing ahead of climate summit.
‘What’s new in Climate Change’, the online event was organised by CSE to demystify all the current, relevant and key concerns and issues of climate change, as well as to understand what would be on the table for discussions during Biden’s summit.