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The Sustainability team focuses on:
 Facilitating collaboration for human and
ecological welfare
 Building the capacity of communities to equitably
manage natural resources
 Funding research and thought leadership on
tackling systemic environmental challenges
In due course, it has become increasingly clear that
it is necessary to create societal platforms to
address each issue in a thoughtful and collaborative
manner, to achieve maximum impact.
Community engaged in MGNREGA work The Trusts acknowledge that solving these
problems would be more effective if it could bring
Overview in partners—whether from the government or the
private sector—to maximise the sweep of the
impact.
Climate-linked environmental issues are the biggest
risks the world faces today. Four of the top five To meet this objective, Tata Trusts have seeded the
global risks of 2018 are related to the environment, India Climate Collaborative (ICC) – an India-led
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as compared to 2012, when only one of the top five platform, bringing philanthropies together to
risks was environmental. India is vulnerable to accelerate the country’s development, while
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climate change due to high risk-exposure and exceeding its climate goals. The vision of the ICC is a
limited ability to respond. The government is thriving world, where India shapes the global
leading the efforts to meet this challenge, by setting climate change movement. The Trusts’ belief is that
ambitious targets. India is the only country among this platform will substantiate the necessity for India
the top 10 emitters to conform to commitments to contribute to the global climate agenda and its
made in Paris. Yet, India’s climate response faces impact on the populations of developing nations.
challenges across resources, awareness and The Trusts also collaborate with a wide range of
expertise. NGOs, corporates, government agencies,
communities, and climate experts to accelerate
With this realisation, Tata Trusts have strived to align
climate action.
and support solutions which create a stable climate,
enabling sustainable development on all counts – In the long run, partnerships and collaborations will
ecosystems, economies and communities. It has form a strong foundation for global progress. The
committed resources to solutions which strengthen goal of Tata Trusts is to advocate for policy, and to
the resilience of vulnerable communities and make facilitate alignment in solutions among
them adaptable to the impact of climate change. international and local institutions and individuals,
in which each leverages its strength to accelerate
The Sustainability team has evolved an innovative
change, solve the climate challenge and ensure a
and collaborative model of philanthropy to build
sustainable future.
and scale up adaptive and resilient models which
equip communities to face environmental 1 Global Risks Landscape, World Economic Forum, 2018
challenges and mitigate future impact. 2 HSBC Report, Fragile Planet, 2018
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