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In today’s interconnected and volatile global landscape, resilient and sustainable supply chains are essential. While global supply networks offer efficiency, they remain vulnerable to disruption. Recent events have continued to challenge their stability — from energy shocks and raw material shortages to regional conflicts and policy shifts. These disruptions ripple across sectors, impact national economies, and directly affect the lives and livelihoods of millions.
To manage these risks effectively, it is critical to embed sustainability and resilience into the core of supply chain strategy. This goes beyond environmental responsibility — it’s about ensuring continuity, adaptability, and long-term value. Sustainable supply chains help companies reduce costs, strengthen business relationships, and support environmental goals.
As India strengthens its role in global trade and manufacturing, resilient supply chains will be a key driver of economic security and sustainable growth.
The premiere edition of Sustainable Supply Chains India brought together industry leaders, policymakers, and experts to explore strategies for building resilient, sustainable supply chains. With a focus on critical sectors like food, health, energy, and mobility, the two-day event featured discussions on policy, innovation, and collaboration. Key themes included reducing environmental impact, enhancing supply chain security, and aligning business practices with long-term sustainability goals.
Green Revolution in 1960s raised agricultural output significantly and the rising incomes boosted protein consumption and brought new challenges such as GHG emissions, food waste, over fishing, etc which are threatening supplies. Agriculture and food industry has to safeguard food supplies against greater disruptive effects of climate change. The need of the hour is innovation and advanced technologies that can help secure and sustain food production.
Despite dramatic improvements in health and life expectancy over the last century, on average people spend 50% of their lives in less than good health and 12% in poor health – a ratio that has not changed over past 50 years. A new vision requires a modernized understanding of health, including physical, mental, social, and spiritual health, and the full richness of factors that influence those elements of holistic health. Factors influencing human health fall into four groups - personal attributes, personal behaviours, environmental attributes, and interventions.
India has recognized the importance of climate change, and set itself the target of achieving net-zero emissions by 2070. India has also set intermediate targets for 2030 which include meeting 50% of its energy requirements from renewable energy; reach non-fossil fuel capacity of 500 GW; reduce carbon emissions by 1 billion tonnes; and reduce carbon intensity by 45%. India has made significant progress in the renewable energy (RE) sector with a four-fold increase in capacity in less than eight years from 39.5GW in 2014 to 151GW in 2021. Despite the progress in the RE sector, India relies primarily on coal (54.2%) and crude oil (28.2%). Large investments would be required to replace these with clean energy sources and power the economic growth of India.
The term sustainable mobility goes far beyond reducing emissions. The transport sector has the potential to improve the lives and livelihoods of billions of people. However, as well as meeting people’s needs today, the sector must be ready to respond to future generations’ expectations: this is the essence of sustainable development. A range of innovative mobility trends, including shared mobility, and providing affordable and sustainable mobility options for people, can help achieve global sustainability goals.