 Hello, I am Drukthi Mishra from Salish Meta School of Management IIT Bombay. I teach courses related to economics, sustainability and climate change. Welcome to my course on business and sustainable development. Sustainable development, for some it is a buzzword, for some it is just a trend, for some it is an agenda, for some it is a challenge and for some it is a matter of survival. How do we achieve this? Is it by consuming less? Is it by producing less or just by using less resources to produce the goods and services? Whose responsible is it? Is it government, the industry, the civil society or the end users? In this course, we are going to address all these questions related. In the journey from linear to circular economy, sustainability plays a very important role. All stakeholders, government, business, NGO and users have to play active role to achieve it. In this course, we will study the context of sustainability and sustainable development. What it means? How do we define this and how do we operationalize this? Then we will see what is the role of business in achieving this. We will learn the tools, standards and the corporate strategy and also we will see what is the existing policies and regulation associated with this. Further, we will understand the role of private sector in this context, particularly with respect to new business and newer instruments in the market. And finally, we will see how sustainability can be achieved beyond the forms that is across the supply chain. Thank you.