Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, Second Edition

CORPORATE INDIA GETS ECO-FRIENDLY

From planting trees, to using solar energy, to constructing smart buildings and even collecting litter, corporate India is going all green.³⁵

Private Sector Initiatives

An increasingly large number of companies these days want to be eco-friendly in one way or the other. To quote a few examples, in Johnson & Johnson’s plant in Mulund near Mumbai, biodegradable waste is being recycled. The Leela Kempinski hotel in Mumbai has been maintaining large gardens in its vast premises with a view to encouraging greenery and improving the ambience. The hotel has also been using natural gas as boiler fuel as it is believed that this process would substantially reduce air pollution vis-à-vis oil-fired ones.

There are many ...