Sustainability leadership summit to release Bengaluru declaration on Saturday

The Centre for Sustainable Development (CSD) will be hosting a Sustainable Leadership Summit in Bengaluru on Saturday, marking the 20th anniversary of the organisation. The summit will also adopt the ‘Bengaluru declaration on Acceleration of Sustainable development goals (SDG).’

Chairman of CSD A Ravindra said the Bengaluru declaration would chart a future course of action towards sustainable development for all stakeholders including government, industry, NGOs and the youth for sustainable development. “The Sustainability Leadership Summit is the culmination of two decades of work on sustainability issues pertaining to water, waste, energy and environment by CSD. Today these issues have become critical and along with climate change pose serious challenges to the quality of life,” said Ravindra who is also the former Chief Secretary of Karnataka.

As a run up to the event, the first Youth Climate Conclave (mock Conference of Parties) will be held on Saturday at BMS Law College with 6 teams participating from 4 cities across India. The winners will be awarded at the Sustainability Summit.


CSD has organised SDG roundtable workshops in four cities across India including Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad and Bhubaneswar. The theme of these workshops is “India’s sustainability @75: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects” to mark India’s 75th independence.