Kamal Nath presents TERI Corporate Awards

New Delhi, June 2: Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath today felicitated seven Indian corporates for environmental excellence, corporate social responsibility and combating HIV AIDS at the TERI Corporate Awards. TERI Corporate Award for Environmental Excellence presented to Numaligarh Refineries Ltd (first prize) and to Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Limited (second prize).

TERI Corporate Award for Social Responsibility presented to ITC Limited (first prize) and Cairn India Limited (second prize). TERI Corporate Award for Business Response to HIV/AIDS presented to Ballarpur Industries Limited and Tata Steel Limited.

The awards, an annual event on the corporate calendar since 2001, saw the Minister, Dr R K Pachauri, Director-General, TERI and Chairman IPCC, Justice J S Verma, Former Chief Justice of India and former Chairperson, NHRC, Naina Lal Kidwai, Group General Manager and Country Head, HSBC India and Gunter Dresrusse, Country Director, GTZ share the dais.

At the ceremony, Nath also released a TERI publication; "Electronic Waste-Implication, Regulation and Management in India and current global best practices" authored by Rakesh Johri, Senior Fellow TERI. The book covers status on generation, migration and economics of e-waste with special focus on recycling, health, management and regulation in India. It also brings out international best practices and regulations.

At the award ceremony, TERI also announced its enhanced partnership with HSBC and GTZ. TERI, in collaboration with HSBC India launched the HSBC Living Business Award to recognize SMEs who have made outstanding contribution to the environment and community in India to sustain long-term business success.

With GTZ, TERI recommitted its partnership on business fight against HIV AIDS to create an enhanced awareness, build infrastructure and knowledge on HIV-AIDS in the corporate sector.

For the year 2007-08, TERI in collaboration with GTZ was involved with organizing capacity building workshops for the business houses in Delhi and Bangalore on Corporate responses to HIV/AIDS with the underlining motive of encouraging more organizations to apply for the year 2008.

Spreading its outreach to the IT and telecommunications sector, TERI in consonance with ZMQ under "Connect-2-Climate" initiative has committed to raise public awareness to combat climate change using mobile games.

Two mobile games on Climate Change were launched - DeCarbonator, an Edutainment Game to raise public awareness among people to adopt eco-friendly methods in life to reduce carbon footprint and Mission Lighting, an adventure game, which helps people to learn about various aspects of energy efficiency, and how energy efficient products and CFL bulbs can save energy consumption, reduce electricity bills and significantly reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

ANI