18 October 2023
ReNew
Gurugram, 18
October 2023: ReNew Energy Global Plc ("ReNew") (Nasdaq: RNW, RNWWW),
India’s leading renewable energy company, has announced that it has achieved a
significant milestone through its Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives,
transforming 1 million lives across India over the past decade.
With an unwavering focus on
empowering communities, ReNew over the last decade has launched a significant
number of social responsibility initiatives based on three broad categories of
development: human, social, and natural
capital, covering areas such as climate education, school electrification,
women in energy, and water conservation.
ReNew’s CSR programs are aligned with
the UN Sustainable Development Goals for providing inclusive and equitable
quality education (SDG 4), achieving gender equality (SDG 5), ensuring access
to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for communities (SDG 7),
as well as taking urgent steps to combat climate change and its impacts (SDG
13).
Since 2014, ReNew has transformed communities
across 10 states including Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand,
Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Haryana,
through the following initiatives:
·
Lighting
Lives: Aligned with UNSDG 7, ‘Lighting Lives’ is focused on last-mile
electrification of schools with less than three hours of electricity through
solar energy. Till date, 114 schools
have been electrified pan India. In addition to this, 55 digital learning centres have been created in schools providing
computer education to rural students.
·
Women for
Climate: A socioeconomic empowerment program, this initiative aligns with
UNSDGs 5 and 13 that focus on promoting gender equality and taking concrete
steps to combat climate change. Through ‘Project Surya’, ReNew is skilling 1000 women salt farmers as solar
technicians in Gujarat, with an attempt to making them more employable and enable
them to join the renewable energy workforce.
·
Water
Security: In arid regions of Rajasthan and Gujarat, ReNew has worked on
traditional rain water harvesting methods such as lake de-silting, pond
excavations, and building taankas, to conserve water. Till date, 10 lakes have been de-silted, 18 ponds have
been excavated, and 120 taankas have been constructed, providing communities
access to water in the Thar region.
·
Gift Warmth: To deal
with the harsh winters in parts of India, ReNew launched ‘Gift Warmth’ to
provide blankets to vulnerable sections of the population across the country.
Under this program, which aligns with the UNSDG 13 which deals with helping
those affected by climate change, ReNew has distributed over 600,000 blankets since 2015 across 10 states.
·
Rice Bucket
Challenge: The annual campaign to donate rice and contribute to making
India hunger-free, the Rice Bucket Challenge focuses on ReNew employees
distributing rice and engaging with communities. Over 1,30,000 kgs of rice have been distributed to the needy since
2015.
Vaishali
Nigam Sinha, Co-Founder and Chairperson - Sustainability, said: “We are immensely proud to have crossed this
important milestone in our journey towards a just, equitable and greener
future. The achievement reinforces our commitment to sustainability and serves
as a beacon of hope for a brighter tomorrow, where clean energy and social
responsibility go hand in hand.
ReNew's
ambitious outreach programs aim to achieve significant social support through a
careful mix of employee volunteers, government engagement and climate change
advocacy. We remain steadfast in our mission to leave a lasting, positive support
on the lives of many more as we forge ahead on the path towards a sustainable
and inclusive India.”
ReNew’s
Corporate Social Responsibility Report for FY22-23 can be accessed here.
About ReNew:
ReNew is
India’s leading decarbonization solutions company listed on Nasdaq (Nasdaq:
RNW, RNWWW). ReNew's clean energy portfolio of approximately 13.7GW on a
gross basis as of June 30, 2023, is one of the largest globally. In addition to
being a major independent power producer in India, ReNew provides end-to-end
solutions in a just and inclusive manner in the areas of clean energy,
value-added energy offerings through digitalization, storage, and carbon
markets that increasingly are integral to addressing climate change. For more information, visit www.renew.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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