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• How green is the country? Check out our State of India's Environment Report 2019 In Figures

  <p>The State of India&#39;s Environment 2019 in Figures is an exclusive data-driven analysis of major developmental and environmental sectors. The datasets can be used by the media to investigate compelling stories, ask better questions to policymakers to drive them to come up with better policies for sustainable development agenda. SoE 2019 in Figures is an annual quantified statement of environmental statistics and analysis put together by Down To Earth magazine, which Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) helps publish.</p>

  • 04/06/2019

  • Centre for Science and Environment
  • • Environment
    • India
    • Statistics
    • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

• Integrated waste management policy and legislation for African Nations, 2017

  In our times, waste, and how to deal with it, has become synonymous with progress and a major policy and logistic headache for governments and citizens across the world. As the nations of the African region

  • 09/11/2017

  • Centre for Science and Environment
  • • Waste Management
    • Waste Disposal
    • Africa
    • GDP

• Globalisation has increased inequity, and is at the core of our problems today: Sunita Narain addresses audiences at Jaipur Lit Fest

  <p>The State of India&rsquo;s Environment 2017, an annual publication from Down To Earth magazine released by Sunita Narain at the Jaipur Literature Festival&nbsp; is a unique, one-of-its-kind compilation of information, opinion and data on environment and development in India.&nbsp; It contains a clump of disturbing data&nbsp;</p>

  • 19/01/2017

  • Centre for Science and Environment
  • • Environment
    • Development
    • India
    • CSE
    • Forests
    • Wildlife
    • Climate Change
    • Rural Development
    • Mining
    • Energy
    • Industry
    • Air Pollution
    • Environment Crime

• Environmental governance under two years of NDA government

  Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), has reviewed the performance of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the end of its two years in office on measures of environmental governance,

  • 14/06/2016

  • Centre for Science and Environment
  • • Environment
    • Governance
    • India
    • CSE
    • Environment Clearance (EC)
    • Industrial Pollution
    • Pollution Control
    • Air Pollution
    • Waste Management
    • Climate Change
    • Ganga
    • Forest Clearance

• Clean Up Your Act: The State of Sanitation in India

  <p>Of the 1 billion people globally who have no toilet, India accounts for nearly 600 million. Fifty per cent of India&rsquo;s population defecates in the open. Community-centric programmes under strong leadership can usher in a clean India says this e-book by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), the environment think tank based in New Delhi, India.</p>

  • 19/05/2016

  • Centre for Science and Environment
  • • Sanitation
    • India
    • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
    • Rural Sanitation

• CSE welcomes Delhi High Court order on junk food

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  • 18/03/2015

  • Centre for Science and Environment
  • • Junk Food
    • Delhi
    • High Court
    • Children
    • India
    • CSE
    • Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI)
    • Health Effects

• CSE welcomes Delhi High Court order on junk food

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  • 18/03/2015

  • Centre for Science and Environment
  • • Junk Food
    • Delhi
    • High Court
    • Children
    • India
    • CSE
    • Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI)
    • Health Effects
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  Heat on power

  Coal plays a critical role in our energy mix, providing over 70 per cent of India’s electricity supply. It is likely to remain a mainstay for several more years, given India’s immense power needs and domestic

  • 21/02/2015

  • Centre for Science and Environment
  • • Thermal Power Plants
    • Coal
    • India
    • Green Rating Projects - CSE
    • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

• CSE report card on the thermal power sector

  The average score of the coal- and lignite-based thermal power sector is a low 23 per cent. Even the highest score is an average 51 per cent; in comparison, a global best plant would have received 80 per

  • 21/02/2015

  • Centre for Science and Environment
  • • Thermal Power Plants
    • Coal
    • India
    • Green Rating Projects - CSE
    • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

• Washout in Lima

  Centre for Science and Environment says the conference’s decisions will not result in a climate deal in 2015 Bad for India. Global warming will increase, India may see more extreme weather events which

  • 14/12/2014

  • Centre for Science and Environment
  • • COP 20 (Lima)
    • Climate Change
    • Climate Agreements
    • Global Warming
    • India
    • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
    • Extreme Weather Events