{"id":172487,"date":"2021-09-23T02:29:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T20:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=172487"},"modified":"2021-09-23T02:29:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T20:59:17","slug":"airtel-joins-global-efforts-to-combat-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/09\/23\/airtel-joins-global-efforts-to-combat-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel joins global efforts to combat climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 22 Sep:<\/strong> Bharti Airtel Limited (Airtel) on Tuesday announced its commitment to contribute to global efforts to mitigate the impact of climate change and build a sustainable planet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Airtel, India&#8217;s leading provider of telecommunications services, has joined the Science Based Targets initiative&#8217;s (SBTi) &#8211; &#8216;Business Ambition for 1.5\u00b0C&#8217; campaign&#8217; and adopted targets to significantly reduce its carbon footprint and emissions from its network operations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With this, Airtel joins the league of leading global corporations who have committed to the 1.5\u00b0C pathway outlined by the SBTi &#8211; a partnership between CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World-Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bharti Airtel&#8217;s legal cell Director Vidyut Gulati said, &#8220;Climate change is the biggest challenge facing humanity. We must act collectively without further delay to ensure we do not go past the point of no return and have a sustainable planet.&#8221; He added that businesses have a fundamental responsibility to contribute to this effort and Airtel has adopted an ambitious target in this direction and will report its progress transparently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a related development, Airtel has also become the first Indian telecommunications company to join the United Nations (UN) Global Compact- the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By becoming a signatory to the UN Global Compact framework, Airtel is aligning its comprehensive Environmental, Societal and Governance (ESG) initiatives to the global body&#8217;s 10 principles spanning Environment, Human Rights, Anti-Corruption and Labour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 22 Sep: Bharti Airtel Limited (Airtel) on Tuesday announced its commitment to contribute to global efforts to mitigate the impact of climate change and build a sustainable planet. Airtel, India&#8217;s leading provider of telecommunications services, has joined the Science Based Targets initiative&#8217;s (SBTi) &#8211; &#8216;Business Ambition for 1.5\u00b0C&#8217; campaign&#8217; and adopted targets to significantly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-172487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}