Business Today brings together policymakers and industry leaders in New Delhi to identify India’s most sustainable companies

NEW DELHI: Sustainability is no longer a footnote in India’s corporate agenda. It is the main event. Business Today is hosting the second edition of its BT India’s Most Sustainable Companies Summit and Awards on June 6 in New Delhi, pulling together policymakers, industry leaders, investors and sustainability champions to interrogate where India’s green growth story is actually headed.

The summit, presented by Maharashtra Tourism, lands the day after World Environment Day, a deliberate piece of timing that places it squarely within the global conversation on climate action. The agenda is substantive: transition finance, decarbonisation pathways for hard-to-abate sectors, resilient infrastructure, clean energy adoption, nature-positive development, ESG excellence and climate adaptation are all on the table.

The summit is framed around Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s net-zero emissions target for 2070, his Mission LiFE initiative and the broader Atmanirbhar Bharat agenda, with the central question being how India advances economic progress while genuinely strengthening environmental and social responsibility.

The awards, supported by CareEdge Group as official knowledge partner, recognise companies that have demonstrated outstanding commitment to ESG principles, responsible governance and measurable environmental and social impact. The jury was led by Ramesh Chand, former member of NITI Aayog, and included Kamran M Khan of Deutsche Bank Group, Vibha Dhawan of TERI, Revati Kasture of CareEdge Group, Shriram Subramanian of InGovern, Pramod Kumar of IRMA and Anish Sugathan of IIM-A. Between them, they cover sustainable finance, ESG, corporate governance, academia and public policy.

The first edition ran in 2025. The second arrives with an expanded agenda and a sharper edge, reflecting how quickly sustainability has shifted from a corporate responsibility box-ticking exercise into something that companies, investors and governments are treating as a matter of competitive survival.

India’s green transition will not be won on ambition alone. It will be won by the companies that move earliest, fastest and most credibly. On June 6, Business Today will name them.