Boost for environment-friendly, low polluting units

By P. Sreekumaran

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has blazed yet another trail by approving an environmental, social and governance (ESG) policy to implement a governance framework for investments in the State.

By doing so, Kerala has become the first State in the country to formulate such a policy, which has been evolved on the basis of the assessment that environment-friendly and relatively low-polluting industries are best suited for the State’s industrial ecosystem.

It is a timely step which has been necessitated by the global trend to make ESG the central point of investment decisions. Kerala, by deciding to evolve the ESG policy, aims to become the leading state in the country for ESG-compliant investments.

The LDF Government intend

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