Insights from National Conference on Sustainability, Business, and Society

Abstract

This article is based on a comprehensive report on the National Conference on Sustainability, Business, and Society organized by Jaipuria Institute of Management, Indore in collaboration with MDRF, New Delhi on 30 September 2023. The conference was organized to explore the philosophical and practical underpinnings of sustainability, beginning with Carlowitz's advocacy of forest resource conservation. Nine distinguished speakers and sixty delegates from India, Nepal and Bahrain, participated in the conference. Delegates at the conference looked at the socio-economic implications of the industrial pursuits of the 20th century and the evolution of sustainability as a focal point of global conversations, role and responsibility of business, society and nation in the 21st century, especially in light of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the evolving global consciousness amidst industrial pursuits, climate change, and the rise of the sustainability lexicon during the proceedings of the inaugural and technical sessions of the conference. Key insights from the conference are likely to foster further dialogue and collaboration among academicians, policymakers, administrators, researchers, students, and the public in mitigating the contemporary sustainability challenges through appropriate interventions.