The power sector and transportation tend to dominate conversations about climate change, but there’s an under-the-radar source of climate pollution that must be addressed: industry.
Globally, industrial activity is responsible for one-third of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Though industry is a major emitter, it is essential for producing the tools we need to fight climate change—like wind turbines, solar panels, and electric vehicles—and for meeting our everyday needs. How can industry eliminate its climate pollution while supplying transformational technologies?
This book delivers a first-of-its-kind roadmap for the zero-carbon industrial transition, spotlighting the breakthrough innovations transforming the manufacturing sector and the policies that can accelerate this global shift. Jeffrey Rissman illustrates the scope of the challenge, diving into the workings of heavy polluters like steel, chemicals, plastics, cement, and concrete. He examines ways to affordably decarbonize manufacturing, such as electrifying industrial processes, using hydrogen, deploying carbon capture and storage, and growing material efficiency with lightweighting and 3D printing. But technologies are only part of the picture. Enacting the right policies—including financial incentives, research and development support, well-designed carbon pricing, efficiency and emissions standards, and green public procurement—can spur investment and hasten emissions reductions. Rissman provides a framework to ensure that the transition to clean industry enhances equity, health, and prosperity for communities worldwide.
Engaging and comprehensive, Zero-Carbon Industry is the definitive guide to decarbonizing the vast—yet often overlooked—global industrial sector.
What would it take to achieve a genuinely food-secure world—one without hunger or malnutrition, where everyone gets to consume the right quantity and quality of food to live a healthy, active, and productive life?
Bringing about such a future requires transforming how our food is grown, managed, and distributed. From production to consumption, food systems must be sustainable, halting environmental degradation and even repairing the damage we have previously done.
This book provides an accessible guide to making healthy diets from sustainable food systems available to all. Glenn Denning bridges the divisive worlds of science, policy, and practice. He synthesizes the most relevant literature and shares personal perspectives and insights gained over four decades working in more than fifty countries, coupled with the real-world experience of hundreds of leading experts. Universal Food Security lays out key priorities—sustainable intensification, market infrastructure, postharvest stewardship, healthy diets, and social protection—and presents how to achieve food systems transformation.
Denning identifies the education and development of practitioner-leaders as the critical trigger of change. Universal Food Security informs and inspires those leaders—acting on their own and with others through institutions—to achieve a food-secure world. This book is an ideal handbook for students and practitioners looking to transform our food systems at all levels.
इस पुस्तक में कंपनियों के विश्लेषण की प्रक्रिया को व्यवस्थित और स्पष्ट रूप से समझाया गया है। लेखकगण निवेश के सबसे हानिकारक मिथकों को भी उजागर करते हैं। कुछ समय से भारतीयों को चल-अचल संपत्तियों समेत अपनी बचतों से पर्याप्त रिटर्न मिलने की सम्भावना नहीं रही। कॉर्पोरेट धोखाधड़ी, कमज़ोर व्यापार मॉडल, कम्पनियों द्वारा पूंजी के गलत आवंटन जैसे कई कारणों से काफी नुकसान हुए, जिनका ख़ामियाज़ा भुगता अदूरदर्शी निवेशकों ने, जिनकी बचतें लग गईं दांव पर। अब भारतीय बचतकर्ताओं के पास कौन-से विकल्प बचे हैं जिनमें निवेश और सम्पत्ति का निर्माण मुमकिन हो?
निराशा की इस गर्त में डायमंड्स इन द डस्ट आपको ईमानदार, अच्छी प्रबंधित भारतीय कम्पनियों की पहचान करने के लिए एक सरल और प्रभावी निवेश तकनीक दे रही है, जो निवेशकों के लिए बड़े पैमाने पर रिटर्न उत्पन्न करेगी।
यह एक बेहद ज़रूरी किताब है, जो निवेश पर किसी मैनुअल जैसे काम करेगी और पाठकों को उनके वित्तीय लक्ष्यों को पाने की व्यावहारिक सलाहें देगी।
अब देखिए, बड़ों की दुनिया की रोज़मर्रा की ऐसी ख़ासी आवश्यक बातों का ज़िक्र तक हमें अपने स्कूली जीवन में कहाँ सुनने को मिलता है? स्कूल में हमें ये सब कहाँ सिखाया जाता है, जबकि इनके कारण ही बड़ी-बड़ी सफलताओं के जो किस्से गढ़े जाते हैं वो हमारी पहुँच से बाहर की बात लगते हैं; ऐसे में हम खुद को ही डंब समझने लगते हैं। लेकिन हम डंब नहीं, बस हमें पता नहीं कि यह सब करना कैसे है।
आपका जो स्कूल है वह यह तो सिखाता है कि दौड़ना कैसे है; लेकिन जीतना कैसे है, यह नहीं सिखाता। और यही काम है इस किताब का : दौड़ जीतने में आपकी मदद करने का। राज शमानी के ख़ुद के ही एक बेहद सफल आंत्रप्रेन्योर और कॉन्टेंट क्रिएटर बनने की यात्रा से प्रेरित उपयोगी और कारगर ढेरों एडवाइज़ हैं इसमें, जो बनाती हैं इस किताब को मस्ट-रीड!
‘अगर आप अपने निवेश का आधार मज़बूत और अपने लिए उज्जवल भविष्य सुरक्षित करना चाहते हैं, तो आपको यह पुस्तक अवश्य पढ़नी चाहिए!’
—नीलेश शाह, प्रबन्ध निदेशक, कोटक महिंद्रा एसेट मैनेजमेंट कम्पनी लिमिटेड
अगर आप समझ नहीं पाते कि आपकी गाढ़ी कमाई महीने के आख़िर तक कहाँ उड़ जाती है तो आपको आर्थिक रूप से सजग होने की आवश्यकता है जिसमें यह पुस्तक आपकी सहायता करती है।
आपकी आमदनी कितनी होनी चाहिए, इसकी जगह यह पुस्तक इस बात पर ज़ोर देती है कि आप अपनी आमदनी का क्या करें, अपने आर्थिक लक्ष्यों को समझदारी से कैसे पाएँ, अपने बीमा और ऋणों का कुशल प्रबन्धन कैसे करें, या सही जगह पर सतर्कता से निवेश कैसे करें ताकि बचत का पैसा आपके लिए लाभ भी जुटाए।
आर्थिक क्षेत्र में वर्षों के अनुभवी लेखक सीए अभिजीत कोलपकर पुस्तक में बड़े सरल तरीके से पाठकों को कारगर सलाहें देते हैं कि पैसों की बचत और अपना आर्थिक विकास किस तरह करें। वो आकर्षक रेखाचित्रों एवं सारणियों से सिखाते हैं कि उनके जीवन में पैसे की केन्द्रीय भूमिका और उससे जुड़ी मूल बातें क्या हैं।
The amount of information we receive every day has quadrupled in the past few years because of technology and social media. This has exponentially increased the probability of coming across negative inputs. We need to learn to filter these negative inputs away, so that nothing and nobody can adversely affect our productivity and happiness. We need to advance ourselves to a level where we are beyond getting damaged by negative inputs or can at least minimize the damage. Can you get hurt, feel pressure, be under stress, interact with unpleasant people and unfavourable circumstances but still be happy, focused on your goal, productive and relentless? This is what it means to be invincible.
Based on the author’s research of the past decade and his work with all kinds of people, from Bollywood celebrities and political leaders to senior professionals and students, this book has been organized into three areas—mindset, skills and habits—that must be developed if you want to become invincible.
The Indian crypto market has experienced an exponential surge in the past few years and become a vehicle to get rich quickly. However, what exactly is crypto? How did we reach the crypto stage—a decentralized system of finance—from the barter system?
Crypto the Disruptor answers these and other such penetrating questions as it traces the history of money and the global economy. Providing a deep historical perspective, the author, through stories, captures the journey of the world’s financial system from the stone-age to the present. It analyses the movement of the world economic system from a centralized entity to a decentralized one and emphasizes the role of technology in the transformation of the global financial system. More importantly, this book explores the emergence of new forms of money such as cryptocurrencies and their relevance in a new world driven by digital technology. The final chapter educates readers about crypto investing in India and how investors should approach this new asset class, which is volatile yet offers great potential to create stupendous wealth.
Statutory warning: Language is a minefield. Words that firms and consumers use can be dealbreakers!
Today, firms have many language-based decisions to make—from the brand name to the language of their annual reports to what they should or shouldn’t say on social media. Moreover, consumers leave a goldmine of information via their words expressing their likes, dislikes, perceptions and attitudes. What the firm communicates and what consumers say have an impact on consumer attitudes, satisfaction, loyalty, and ultimately, on a firm’s sales, market share and profits.
In this book, Abhishek Borah meticulously and marvellously showcases the influence of language on business. Through examples ranging from Toyota to Tesla and Metallica to Mahatma Gandhi, you will read about how to improvise on social media, how changing the use of simple pronouns like ‘we’ and ‘you’ can affect a firm’s bottom line, how to spot a fake review online and much more.
So whether you are just inquisitive about the role of language in affecting consumer and company behaviour or a student wondering about the utility of language analysis in understanding them, Mine Your Language will teach you to use language to influence, engage and predict!
Expanding upon one of his high-level foundational teachings: Strategic Coach co-founder Dan Sullivan explains why achieving 10X growth is easier than going for 2X growth.
Dan Sullivan, the world’s leading coach for highly successful entrepreneurs, wants you to know that achieving 10X growth is exponentially easier than striving for 2X growth. Most find this idea confusing at first because simply imagining 10X growth causes them to think they need to do 10X more work to achieve it. However, being a 10X entrepreneur is nothing like what most people think.
10X is not the outcome; it’s a counterintuitive process you can apply every time you want exponential growth in your life and business. To make 10X possible, you must focus on expanding what Dan defines as your four most important freedoms—time, money, relationship, and purpose. As your time becomes 10X more valuable, you increasingly multiply the money you earn both in terms of amount and profitable satisfaction. As money becomes a tool you can increasingly access with greater ease, you will engage with a growing number of other freedom-motivated individuals. As both your professional and personal life fills up with 10X more unique and collaborative relationships, you will realize that your most powerful purposes in all areas become 10X more lasting and positive for everyone involved. You will be impressed by what your life has become, and the meaning and impact you’re having.
10X is fundamentally about quality vs quantity, and the quality of your freedoms determines the results you achieve.
Asian Paints is India’s largest paints company and its early history is hardly known; even less is known about how Champaklal Choksey and his friends made Asian Paints the largest paints company in India as far back as 1967. There are many lessons that are relevant even today – from investing in high quality talent to separating management and ownership. Most importantly, there are very few books that show how honest businessmen can – and should – build large-scale institutions that endure beyond their lifetime, just as Champaklal Choksey has done. This book tells the story of an iconic institution and its less-known but visionary founder.
