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Transforming Vedanta’s ESG strategy: Priya Agarwal’s USD5 billion litmus test

Transforming Vedanta’s ESG strategy: Priya Agarwal’s USD5 billion litmus test
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Priya Agarwal Hebbar, Non Executive Director, Vedanta Ltd.

Synopsis

Priya Agarwal Hebbar, daughter of Vedanta founder Anil Agarwal, and a non-executive director at the mining giant, is spearheading the ESG strategy of the group, which aims to be net-zero by 2050 or sooner. Successful implementation of the ESG strategy will play a key role in Vedanta’s growth prospects in a business environment increasingly influenced by climate-change concerns.

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As an impressionable fresh science graduate from the UK’s University of Warwick, Priya Agarwal Hebbar remembers often getting into debates with her billionaire industrialist father, Anil Agarwal, on the extractive nature of the mining business, and its impact on the environment. “I used to spend a lot of time with my father, and talk to him about mining, try and understand the business,” says Hebbar. What agitated Hebbar's young mind (then in

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