What the field reveals before policy catches up.
Field notes on climate action, decent work, livelihoods and responsible business, published as The Sustainability Realist, alongside the repositories and coverage that sit behind them.
Practitioner analysis, published as it happens.
Vivek K. Singh writes The Sustainability Realist on Substack: field-tested analysis on carbon disclosure, decent work and the last-mile gap between sustainability ambition and supply chain reality. The most recent articles load alongside this, directly from the publication.
When Your Buyer Asks for a Carbon Footprint, Which One Do They Mean?
The product carbon footprint request your team cannot answer - yet
Read insightThe Carbon Disclosure Tsunami: The Disclosure Harmonisation Approach to Multi-Framework Compliance
One data foundation. Served every framework.
Read insightThe Carbon Disclosure Tsunami: Where Measurement, Materiality, and Verification Break Down
Where backward-looking metrics, incompatible materiality definitions, and fragmented verification break down under four-framework pressure.
Read insightThe Carbon Disclosure Tsunami: How TCFD, CSRD, and Banking Demands Break BRSR's Architecture
TCFD demands scenario analysis. CSRD requires double materiality. RBI wants financed emissions. BRSR wasn't built for any of them. And now they're all hitting Indian companies at the same time.
Read insightThe Carbon Disclosure Tsunami: What BRSR Principle 6 Actually Built (And What It Can't Do)
As EU CBAM enters its definitive phase, Indian exporters face a critical data architecture gap. Discover why current BRSR disclosures cover only 40% of requirements and how to navigate the 67% cost overestimation paradox.
Read insightTwo Years to Prepare, Two Days to Surrender: India's Aviation Safety Compromise
How India's largest airline turned its operational failures into government policy reversal, and what this crisis reveals about the declining obligation of worker safety and public welfare regulations
Read insight$28 Trillion in Climate Damage, Why Blaming Corporations Won’t Save Us
Why realistic energy transition beats blame games, and how corporations, consumers, and policymakers can drive meaningful climate progress together
Read insightIndia Has 140,000 Startups. Here's the Question Nobody Is Asking About That Number.
The headline figure is real and verifiable. The more important question is what's actually driving the surge, and whether those forces are building durable ventures or disguising something else entire
Read insightThe True Cost of Fast Fashion Is Not on the Price Tag
Tracing the journey from exploitative factories to your closet and demanding a transparent future for the workers we never see.
Read insightThe record behind the analysis.
Repositories and coverage that back up the field claims, not just the writing about them.
Natural Colour Repository
A bilingual handbook, a GPS-tagged catalogue of dye-yielding plants and three practical learning modules, built out of the Natural Colours programme in Uttarakhand.
Five years of annual reports
FY2017-18 through FY2021-22, with financials, governance disclosures and registration numbers, are downloadable from Legal and Compliance.
Coverage from the ground
Regional dailies have reported on the eye camps for weavers in Bhadohi and Ramnagar, Varanasi, and the health and social security camps in Aligarh.
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