Title: Sustainable future initiatives to mitigate air pollution by Indian corporates

Authors: Gurloveleen Kaur; Lalit Singla

Addresses: Chitkara Business School, Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab, India ' Apex Institute of Management, Chandigarh University, Gharuan (Mohali), India

Abstract: Particulate matters 2.5 is an air pollutant component sternly harmful to human health chiefly released by the operations of corporations. The present study is conducted to evaluate the proportion of non-greenhouse gas emissions. Five companies from the seven most polluted industries specified by the Center of Pollution and Control Board were chosen, based on higher market capitalisation from the steel, sugar, paper, cement, fertiliser, copper, and aluminium industries. The corporations were found to release a good amount of non-GHG emissions, but decent control on such releases has been observed in 2023. Certain measures like the installation of electrostatic precipitators, replacing clinker with advanced technology, using solar and wind energy, bicarbonate products, NONEL detonators, and other efforts were made. Lack of data, uniformity in reporting, least concern for the environment, and others were the observed limitations. Indian companies are suggested to protect the earth from harmful emissions with more effort.

Keywords: green energy; sustainability; Particulate Matters 2.5; WHO; Air Quality Index; AQI; standards.

DOI: 10.1504/IJASS.2025.146732

International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies, 2025 Vol.12 No.2, pp.122 - 150

Received: 16 Jul 2024
Accepted: 26 Oct 2024
Published online: 16 Jun 2025 *

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