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Aviation Caught in Turbulence

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Businesses impact people, planet and society. It is therefore the duty of corporates to work credibly and ethically at all times to sustain their own survival and competitive advantage.

or any airline, its customers are the most important stakeholders. It is for them that they exists in the first place. If this is the case, it is surprising to see that no player in the industry treats customers fairly and accurately. On the contrary, they are always on the lookout to fleece customers. Anybody booking a ticket at the last moment would know this only too well. If a ticket costs Rs. X twenty days prior to the journey, it defies logic why the cost would escalate closer to the travel date. Equally baffling is the role of the regulator and the government. For every other mode of travel, be it railways, taxi or even auto rickshaws, there are fixed and published fares. These fares never change suddenly. In case they do, there is a penalty for over charging as this is seen as exploitation. How can the aviation industry then go scot-free on this count? How can the government turn a blind eye to last minute price escalation by airlines? No regulatory authority has questioned this malpractice. This unprofessional conduct has touched a new high because of the current SpiceJet mess. With the bleeding airline grounding aircrafts and canceling flights, its competition has seized the opportunity to further arm-twist the passengers. The other players in the industry have jacked up the prices so much so that the Delhi-Mumbai ticket skyrocketed to Rs. 50,000, thereby putting air travel out of reach of the common man. This is the worst opportunism at its best.

It is not surprising then that people look at businesses and businessmen with suspicion. Businesses going bust should draw sympathy but it is just the opposite. For instance, Kingfisherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decline not just alienated people from the airline but also brewed anger for its promoter Vijay Mallya because of his high handedness and utter unprofessionalism in dealing with the situation. Businesses impact people, planet and society. It is therefore the duty of corporates to work credibly and ethically at all times to sustain their own survival and competitive advantage. While it is important for them to make money, what is more important for them is to ensure that they make it the right way and be seen as doing so! They really need to know and imbibe in their core strategic vision the concept of not just financial returns but, more importantly, social returns. Missing or ignoring social returns would eventually lead an organisation to lose its relevance and run the risk of being wiped out completely in the near future. We hope the aviation industry sees the merit of this and carries out a course correction for its own brand image and survival. We, at CSR Today, will continue to lead the way for this cause for the simple reason that it is just and fair and also bodes well for people, plant, society and the airline itself. It is logical to be on the right side of your most important stakeholder. It is simple business sense.

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Contents

january 2015 | vol. 02 | issue 06 Printer and Publisher: Rajesh Tiwari EDITORIAL Consulting Editor: Y Singh INDIAN CENTRE FOR CSR ADVISORY BOARD Pankaj Pachauri, Ted McFarland, Mag. Martin Neureiter, Chandir Gidwani, Lou Altman, Kingshuk Nag, Toby Webb, Anil Bajpai, Nikos Avlonas, Rajesh Tiwari, Satish Jha, Amit Chatterjee, Jitendra Bhargava, Namita Vikas, Dinesh N. Awasthi, Kapil Dev, Dr. Kamal Kant Dwivedi, Sanjiv Kaura, Suhel Seth PRODUCTION, CIRCULATION AND LOGISTICS Hardik C

14 cover story A Smile on Every Face

Smile Train is among the few charities that are run like corporates. The lean and efficient organization is transforming the lives of millions of children by focusing on solving a single problem: cleft lip and palate

CSR LEADERSHIP

06 Integrating “ESG” Issues into Global Risk, Compliance & Integrity Programs 08 Pledge 1% Program Launched 10 From Obscurity to World Cup Fame

sustainability capital 19 Hyatt and Tsogo Sun: No

Leisure in the Hotel Industry 22 Sustainability Indices: Benchmarks for Listed Companies

csr society

24 The Internet of Moving Things: Where Big Data Meets Mobility 26 The Business Case for Reputation Risk Management

28 Not Disabled, But Differently Abled 30 Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Ups the Ante Against Hepatitis B & C in India, China

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36 A Blueprint for Effective International Climate Agreement 38 Catering for Waste Reduction Strategies 40 Two Publishing Powerhouses: Science. Fiction. 42 The Real Story Behind Brazil’s ‘Greenest World Cup’

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CSR News Educating Corporates on CSR

he Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) recently launched Module II of the ‘Village Buddha’ programme in Karnataka, a model developed by specialist Professor Shoji Shiba to transform how the industry looks at CSR activities, according to a report in The New Indian Express. Module II was launched at Thattahalli village on the Attibele-Anekal road. Professor Shibha said, “Villages are currently undergoing a transformation and nearing a tipping point. They are no longer isolated as in the past and as a result, aspirations are on the rise.” He said that with a distinct lack of opportunities still present, the Village Buddha programme is aimed at educating corporates to better understand villages and ‘bring about a transformational approach to their CSR activities’. The programme envisages the development of business models where companies will work with villagers and panchayats to identify projects centered around community needs like clean water or self-sufficiency in energy, education and other fields. “Inclusive growth is required to reduce disparities and for this, engagement of businesses with society is imperative. I am confident that Village Buddha will lead to the holistic development of society,” said Nobuaki Yamamoto, Consul at the Japanese embassy in Bengaluru.

No Specific Tax Exemption For CSR Expenses

he government has said there is no specific tax exemption on expenses incurred by companies under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities, a report in The Times of India said. The new companies law, which came into force from April 1, requires certain class of profitable corporates to shell out at least 2 per cent of their three-year annual average net profit towards CSR works. “...no specific tax exemption has been extended to expenditure incurred on CSR,” corporate affairs minister Arun Jaitley said in the Lok Sabha recently. However, he said that several activities that are part of Schedule VII of the Companies Act, 2013, already

enjoy exemptions under the Income Tax Act, 1961. These activities include contribution to Prime Minister’s relief fund, scientific research, rural development and skill development projects. Schedule VII of the Act pertains to CSR. “As regards contribution made by companies under CSR towards Swachh Bharat and Clean Ganga, no specific tax exemption has so far been made,” Jaitley said in a written reply. Responding to a query on whether the government has taken note of private sector companies trying to evade CSR on one pretext or the other, the minister said that information with regard to compliance would be available only after September 2015.

Infosys to Expand CSR Activities in US

ountry’s second largest software services firm Infosys will expand its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities in the US to focus on making quality computer science education widely available, a report in Business Today said. To be carried out by its philanthropic arm - Infosys foundation, USA - the activities would focus on making quality computer science education widely and easily accessible across communities in the Americas, Infosys said in a statement recently. The initial outlay for Infosys Foundation, USA, would be $5 million (over Rs 31.6 crore) per annum. Infosys has appointed Sudha Murty, Vandana Sikka and Sandeep Dadlani as the trustees of the arm. “Infosys Foundation has always supported the cause of promoting quality education and empowering individuals. I am confident that we will leverage Infosys Foundation’s experience in India of imparting technical education to enhance employability,” Murty, who is also the Chairperson of Infosys Foundation, said. In India, Infosys Foundation supports several programmes aimed at alleviating hunger, promoting education, improving health, assisting rural development, supporting arts and helping the destitute. For the fiscal year 2015, Infosys Foundation plans to deploy about $40 million towards these initiatives. January 2015 | CSR Today | 3

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Integrating

“ESG” Issues into Global Risk, Compliance & Integrity Programs

ow do we get environmental and social issues to be integrated more systematically into companies’ risk and compliance programs, the way that corruption, anti-money-laundering and other ‘governance’ issues are? While environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting has been around for quite some time, you know ESG has arrived when Wall Street and Fleet Street are paying attention to

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these issues and companies such as Goldman Sachs are publishing annual ESG Reports. Does the recent awakening by the powerful global financial industry to issues of ESG, reputation and integrity convey a trend towards convergence between ESG and business risk, compliance and integrity programmes? Or is it a short-term pendulum swing? Before we answer that question, let’s take a quick look at what we mean by ESG – Table 1 provides a snapshot. While some consider the “governance” piece to be limited strictly to corporate governance protocols, others view it as including a broader set of legal and regulatory issues; I agree with the more inclusive view. This said, let’s go back to the question posed. There are two assumptions embedded in this question: 1. That the “governance” part of the ESG equation has found its way more regularly and systematically into companies’ business risk, compliance and integrity programmes – through corporate governance procedures, codes of conduct and policies, especially relating to legal and regulatory matters. I generally agree with this observation, especially concerning US-based global companies whose business risk, compliance and integrity programmes started for legal and regulatory reasons. As discussed below, however, even these programmes are morphing into more holistic, strategic approaches including broader ESG issues.

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Governance, risk and reputation strategist Dr Andrea Bonime-Blanc answers a question submitted by Alexandra Mihailescu Cichon, head of business development at RepRisk, Switzerland by andrea bonime-blanc

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lefts are the number one birth defect in many developing countries. Every year, 35,000 babies in India are born with clefts. More than 50 percent of them do not receive any treatment because they do not know a cleft can be fully corrected or are too poor to travel to a hospital. By one estimate there are over 10 lakh cases of untreated clefts in India. A cleft occurs when certain midline soft tissues do not fuse together during the development of the fetus. Clefts can involve the lip, the roof of the mouth, and the soft tissue in the back of the mouth. Many children afflicted with clefts, especially girls, are killed at birth or abandoned. 14 | CSR Today | January 2015

Orphanages are full of children with cleft. But even when they are allowed to live, their families are ashamed of them, other children taunt them and most schools won’t accept them. Even if they manage to get some basic education, they cannot find jobs, get married or join the mainstream of society. Though ‘normal’ in every other sense, because of the facial deformity and speech impediment, children born with clefts are condemned to grow up as social outcasts and objects of ridicule. Most clefts can be completely corrected with a simple surgical procedure that could take as little as 45 minutes. There are few procedures that can change a child’s life as quickly and as dramatically as cleft surgery.

To overcome this defect, an international children’s charity, Smile Train, has taken upon itself to put the afflicted ones’ lives back on track.

Changing Lives Smile Train is an international charity devoted to both curative and preventive aspect of healthcare for children born with cleft lips and cleft palates. It not only makes quality cleft lip and palate surgery available across India but provides it completely free of cost to anyone who needs it. “In the 15 years of our existence, we have become the world’s largest charity in the field of cleft surgery. We have till date sponsored 10 lakh surgeries world wide. In India,

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Aishwarya Rai celebrates 20 years as Miss World with Smile Train

Smile Train started in 2000, and has since sponsored 4.5 lakh cleft surgeries, which makes it one of the biggest such program anywhere in the world” avers Satish Kalra, Chief Programs Officer, Smile Train. The charity has 170 treatment facilities in India. Globally, Smile Train has over 1100 partner hospitals in 85 countries supporting one single cause – prevention and cure of cleft lips and cleft palates. Annually, it conducts over 50,000 surgeries in India and 130,000 surgeries globally. “India accounts for over 45 percent of the surgeries and 25 percent of the budget. This shows that India is one of the most cost effective programs anywhere in the world. The India operations are run by just four

people (two in New Delhi and one each in Noida and Bangalore),” says Kalra. The passion with which Kalra works is clearly reflected in the way he talks and explains about Smile Train. “There is something inherently addictive about working with kids, watching their lives being transformed, their faces light up with smiles, which makes you want to carry on. Patients see their smile for the first time, parents cry tears of joy, lives and communities are changed forever. As a result of our efficiency and with the support of our donors and partners around the world, Smile Train has transformed the lives of more than one million children by giving them the power of a smile – that’s roughly 340 surgeries a day

and 127,000 every year,” he says. “We use the ‘teach a man to fish’ model focusing on training local doctors to perform cleft repairs in their communities. Those doctors then go on to train other doctors creating a longterm, sustainable system,” explains Kalra. He believes it is the noble cause, done in the right spirit and manner, which is a pull factor for the doctors. “We have a medical advisory board in India, the US (New York) and China. The reason why they (doctors) volunteer their time with us is because they think we are doing the right thing, which keeps us on the straight and narrow,” says Kalra. “The top medical practitioners are not our employees and are not paid by us. They give their January 2015 | CSR Today | 15

SUSTAINABILITY CAPITAL

Sustainability Indices: Benchmarks for Listed Companies

hen companies manage their business sustainably, not only the environment, the society

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and its employees benefit. Their performance in the capital markets is a winner too, and this observation is not just wishful thinking on the part of eco-activists

or social interest groups. It is based on an evaluation of over 200 studies published in September 2014 by London, UK, asset manager Arabesque and the University of Oxford. Eighty percent of the studies evaluated demonstrated that systematic sustainability management exercises a positive influence on share prices. So potential investors would be well advised to take environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria into consideration when making investment decisions. The British metastudy has good news for companies too. Ninety per cent of the studies prove that sustainably managed companies can raise capital at significantly lower cost. This, then, is a real win-win situation. Against this backdrop it is hardly surprising that the market for sustainable capital investments is growing strongly. Stock market professionals refer to them as socially responsible investments, or SRIs. For 2014 Nasdaq OMX estimates the volume of professionally managed SRI funds at nearly USD 1.9 trillion around the world, corre-

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Potential investors would be well advised to take environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria into consideration when making investment decisions by daniel schmid

CSR Society

The Internet of Moving Things: Where Big Data Meets Mobility

obin Chase doesn’t buy into the hype about mobile – at least when mobile is associated with portable gadgets like smartphones. But the rising stock of technological tools related to smart cities and sensor-enhanced transportation networks 24 | CSR Today | January 2015

has led to a market for larger-scale mobility challenges that the ZipCar and Buzzcar founder can get behind. “It’s kind of funny. When it comes to mobility, people are usually talking about things that aren’t moving,” Chase told GreenBiz. “I can get my Gmail wherever I am, but the object itself

isn’t moving when it’s doing the interaction.” With her newest venture, Veniam, Chase is taking aim at what she sees as a logical, if a bit more technologically-challenging, next step: Connecting as many of the world’s 1 billion moving vehicles to cellular and Wi-Fi networks as possible. For consumers, the company’s technology installed in public buses or cars provides free Wi-Fi hotspots. But the real long-term potential lies in the data generated by sensors being installed on cars and transportation infrastructure, which could be tapped for new insights on fleet management, heavily-trafficked corridors, peak drive times and other transit metrics. “All these sensors that are supposed to be around a city – how does that data get collected and actually into the Internet and worked on?” said Chase, who coined the term the “Internet of moving things” to situate her company in the technology lexicon. The mobility twist on the Internet of Things trend, which has buoyed connectedhome products from companies like Google’s Nest and General Electric, recently helped

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Long-term potential lies in the data generated by sensors being installed on cars and transportation infrastructure, which could be tapped for new insights on fleet management, heavily-trafficked corridors, peak drive times and other transit metrics by lauren hepler

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A Blueprint for Effective International Climate Agreement A new publication includes ideas on how various elements could be crafted to produce the strongest and most effective climate agreement that goes further than any previous plan by jennifer morgan and yaimide dagnet

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he world is at a pivotal moment. As part of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), countries are hard at work to create an international climate agreement by 2015 that can both respond to the growing impacts of climate change and drive a global shift to a low-carbon economy. There have been other attempts to do this in the past. The Kyoto Protocol of 1997, the Copenhagen Accord and the Cancun and Durban decisions all were steps forward, but neither the level of emissions reductions achieved nor the international rules and norms established are up to the challenge of solving climate change. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear that the new agreement must be different from the litany of past compacts, protocols, accords and decisions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but how? As the official negotiations have been underway, a small group of experts quietly has been thinking through these tough issues, conducting research and convening governments and stakeholders such as

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