India needs to take steps towards better environment, social and governance (ESG) practices for its own sake but there is a natural resistance when it is imposed by international bodies and forums, the CEA said. "When we have global leaders and heads of organisations travel in their private jets a few thousand kilometres to attend a conference on climate change or ESG, that does not pass the credibility test," the CEA said.
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