Make in India 🇳🇴🇮🇳 Sustainability Dialogues  Make in India is an initiative by the Government of India to make and encourage companies to develop, manufacture and assemble products made in India and incentivize dedicated investments into manufacturing.  The Make in India initiative was launched by Prime Minister Modi in 2014. 1. Cochin Shipyard Ltd has built two autonomous electric vessels for ASKO Maritime AS, Norway 2. The two vessels are central to ASKO’s passion for sustainability and...

The Klemetsrud CO2 capture and storage project will be the world’s first waste-to-energy plant with full-scale CCS by 2026. Our guest for this episode of Norway India Sustainabilty Dialogues is Jannicke Gerner Bjerkås. So much is happening in the Carbon capture landscape! (ONGC) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Equinor ASA, the Norwegian state-owned multinational energy company, for energy exploration and climate change mitigation options...

Sustainability Dialogues Cities form networks, engage in dialogue with counterparts, facilitate public diplomacy, share best practices & encourage collaboration. Find answers to the following in this podcast- About C40 and its work.How does C40 use city diplomacy to help cities meet their climate ambitions? Cities earn their membership through their actions and both of you work with two very different cities - Mumbai and Oslo  - The kind of work being done by Mumbai to address the...

🇳🇴🇮🇳 Sustainability Dialogues Oslo is the first city in the world that has developed a dedicated climate budget which serves as the governance tool for its climate work. Many cities are following Oslo’s climate leadership in action. Get to know our podcast guest: Heidi Sørensen  Heidi Sørensen is the Director of the Climate Agency, City of Oslo.   🇳🇴 In her youth, Sørensen was an active environmentalist and was leader of both Natur og Ungdom and Friends of the Earth Norway. She was elected...

Millions have watched Pose on HBO.  In India, people don’t watch! Government acts!   While recognition of genders outside of male and female has only recently been discussed in Western societies, in the Indian society, people of non-binary gender expressions have played important roles for over 2000 years. India's Supreme Court has ruled that transgender people are created as a third gender in the country.  The decision is seen as a milestone in India. This was the first time in world...

Awesome conversation with the President of the Storting of Norway, Masud Gharahkhani  🇳🇴 Mr. Masud Gharahkhani is the country's second highest ranked person, after the king.  The President is what we would describe as a male ally: A man who will advocate for women even when there are no women in the room.  We need more men like him, Men who walk the talk.  He was elected as The President of the Storting in November 2021 

Women will drive India´s future as India now officially has more females than males. In Norway, many high profile leaders have joined the Norwegian campaign #arnekampanjen. The information campaign is inspired by a Dutch LinkedIn campaign called Peter. There are more leaders in the Netherlands named Peter than there are female leaders in total. Among the 100 highest paid leaders in Norway, there are as many named Arne as there are women in total. As DEIB is in the core of DMI, we have...

India is a multi-religious, multi-lingual, multi-racial, multi-cultural country. Its secular status is, however, a heated topic for debate today.  India has a long and mostly honorable tradition of using soft power in its diplomacy. Religion plays a very central and definitive role in Indian society and culture. It can often be seen to influence businesses and the economy. We have with us Sadhguru interviewed by Erik Solheim. Sadhguru is a yogi and a mystic. 🧘🏽 A man whose passion spills...

India now officially has more females than males. There has been a demographic shift.  According to latest data released by the Indian government from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), there are now 1,020 women for every 1,000 men. Women’s economic empowerment is highly connected to poverty reduction because women tend to invest their earnings into their communities and family’s development. According to World Bank estimates, India’s women in workforce contribute 17% to GDP, which is...

It was fantastic to have Atle Vidar Nagel Johansen, EVP & CEO for Orkla Foods, with us for our upcoming podcast on ESG.(#Environmental #Social #Governance). 🇳🇴🇮🇳 Atle has worked 25+ years in various leadership positions in the Orkla Group; - in finance, marketing and general management. He served on the Executive Management #Board of Orkla as EVP since 2012. In January 2021, Atle took on the responsibility as CEO for the merged Foods business area.  Orkla Foods is the largest business...

At COP26 - UN Climate Change Conference, countries committed to new, ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions this decade. Delivering on these promises will rely on the development, financing and scale up of green technologies. China and India, the two biggest producers, consumers and importers of coal, sparked the last-minute drama at the COP26 talks by forcing a compromise that led from "phase out" to be changed to "phase down." What does this mean? And what about Norway and...

We have with us Chief Information Officer of Posten Norge, Arne Erik Berntzen. ARNE ERIK BERNTZEN is the CIO at Posten Norge. His passion is the interaction between technologies and business development and how compnaies can grow in a sustainable way. He has experience from consulting services and different roles within postal and logistic operations. He is skilled in IT Strategy, IT System Development, IT Operations, IT Cost Management, e-commerce and digital innovation. He works hard to...

We have with us Abhishek Thepade. Abhishek Thepade comes from India and Joined DNB Asset Management in 2008. He is currently the portfolio manager for Emerging market funds at DNB. He has over 12 years of experience in investing and currently is responsible for investments into Asian markets like India, China, Korea and Taiwan. HE has a MSc in Financial analysis and Fund management from University of Exeter, UK. He is being interviewed by Rina Sunder. It will be interesting to see if India...

Dfavo® - formerly known as studyportal.io - has developed a fast, easy to use online service that enables access to education worldwide. By digitizing the application services the team have developed a popular solution to make international student recruitment both secure and transparent. This is clean and efficient Scandinavian communications design that improves the experience for applicant, counsellor, and university. We have with us Pål Kvalheim and Harinder Aulakh, the founders of...

DMI invited Ganesh Shenoy, Chair of the Board of the Norwegian Business Association of India (NBAI)for a c-suite conversation on Foodtech: a foundation boon to sustainable food systems. Shenoy is also CFO & VP IT, MTR Foods Pvt Ltd (owned by Orkla).  Here is what was discussed:  •What is FoodTech? How it has emerged and secured its place on the the market?  •COVID-19 is changing how we work, travel, communicate, shop and more, but how has it shifted the focus of consumers with respect to...

India has given the world many of its leading intellectuals.  We are proud to have with us Dr. Parakala Prabhakar , a well known Indian political economist, political commentator, economic, and social affairs. Dr Prabhakar was an advisor to the Andhra Pradesh government from 2014 to 2018 and he is the Managing Director of RightFOLIO.  Dr Parakala Prabhakar does not shy away from being critical of the government while being the Finance Minister’s husband.  By 2030, the two countries will...

The Modern India was honoured to hold 3 events at Arendalsuka 2021. Day 1-How India will redesign the World The world was last designed seventy-five years ago. This is the time to look at a world redesign beyond the narrow national interests, to one which would serve the best interests of people and our planet.  In the late nineteenth century, the three great powers were imperial Britain, the United States, and a rising Germany. In the mid-twentieth century, the US, Britain and the Soviet...

Norway serves as an exemplary model for widespread adoption of EVs, achieved through a combination of smart incentives, infrastructure, and benevolent conditions. DMI invited the following for a seminar on Clubhouse to discuss the successful model of EV adoption in Norway. - Ola Elvestuen is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. He served as Minister of Climate and Environment from 2018 to 2020.  - Jasmeet Khurana manages the mobility decarbonization project at the World Business...