Corporate dharma for a greener future

Long before climate conferences and carbon credits, India was already sensitive to the environment and planet.

- Priya Agarwal Hebbar, non-executive director, Vedanta Ltd., and chairperson, Hindustan Zinc Ltd., that has been certified as a 2.41 times Water Positive Company.

Our ancient Sanskrit texts, over 3,000 years old, weren't environmental manifestos in the modern sense. But they had one clarity—that the earth is not a resource, but a stakeholder. The Vedas describe the natural order that governs the universe. They capture the principle of a balance in nature, a sacred rhythm. And when we disrupt it, we suffer. In today's parlance, we call it sustainability. India can be a leader of the world in showing that achieving prosperity and protecting the planet are not conflicting goals, that they are, in fact, in harmony.