Introduction
Businesses worldwide are incorporating sustainability into their policies and practices to address the negative impact of their processes on the environment.
One of the goals of sustainability is economic development with minimal negative impact on the natural environment. India has over 2,000 grossly polluting industries discharging their effluents into rivers and lakes, 6 percent of which do not comply with pollution laws. Although the per capita greenhouse emissions are low, the country is the third largest after China and the United States of America. (2022 report, http://www.indiastatenviron.com/).
A group of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that were developed by the United Nations (UN) in 2015 are intended to be relevant to all countries, regardless of their level of development, in contrast to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were in force from 2000 to 2015 and primarily focused on developing countries.
They act as a unifying call to action to combat poverty, safeguard the environment, and...