Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The Centre for Science and Environment is organizing the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2013: Excreta Does Matter, on urban India’s water supply and waste management challenges. The two-day dialogue will deliberate on critical issues on how cities will get affordable and sustainable water and waste systems that can supply to all …
There is a serious lack of foresight in urban sewage & wastewater management in our country and untreated sewage is killing our water” said Vice President Hamid Ansari at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue on water & wastewater management. See also
Environment has been given short shrift in the budget with finance minister P. Chidambaram concerning himself only with the thousands of tons of garbage being generated in our cities everyday. The budget focuses on the need to set up waste-to-energy projects in PPP mode. Unfortunately most of these plants have …
The FM wants credit for acting on environment, but does the wrong things The "mool mantra" of Budget 2013 is inclusive and sustainable development, says Finance Minister P Chidambaram. But, as far as the environment is concerned, there is no substance in the Budget that tells us how the direction …
New Delhi: With the government throwing its weight behind waste-to-energy (WTE) plants in this year’s Budget, a debate has started on the need for, and suitability of, such projects. Waste management across most parts of the country is in a mess and in cities like Delhi, where a WTE plant …
Finance minister P Chidambaram batted for sustainable development repeatedly in his speech, marking the arrival of the phrase in mainstream political and economic lexicon. But he backed it up with only loose change for environment and green technologies sector, though he offered some new provisions for urban environment and new …
The Maha Kumbh in Allahabad has perhaps no parallel in terms of the sheer size of the congregation. In less than two months over 100 million people are expected to come to this city, at the confluence of the Ganga and the Yamuna. But even as they celebrate the rivers …
In an effort to prove that pollution affects the rich and the powerful as much as the common man and the homeless, a court-appointed body is working to put up an air monitoring device on Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's house. The monitor would specifically detect levels of ground-level ozone, which …
Watch out for live reports from the Conference on food safety & environmental toxins being organised by Centre for Science and Environment from Feb 20-21, 2013 at New Delhi marking a decade of support to community and public policy by CSE's pollution monitoring lab.
This document contains the video and text of the presentation delivered by Sunita Narain, Director General of Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi on the challenge of a low carbon economy during the South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change 2011 organized by CSE, held on 16-17 Nov …
Air pollution has jumped to number five spot amongst the top killers in India. Releasing India-specific data, the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) warned that outdoor air pollution caused 627,000 deaths and 17.7 million healthy years of life lost in 2010. Worldwide, outdoor air pollution caused 3.2 million premature deaths …
Air pollution is now the fifth largest killer in India, says the Global Burden of Disease report released by the scientists behind this study at a dialogue workshop organised by CSE, Indian Council of Medical Research and US-based Health Effects Institute. Outdoor air pollution has become the fifth largest killer …
The new India specific findings of the new Global Burden of Disease (GBD) count, a global initiative involving the World Health Organisation that says air pollution has become the fifth largest killer in India, is shocking. This India specific findings have been released by the scientists of the US based …
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) organised a dialogue workshop on ‘Burden of Disease: Air Pollution among top killers’ at New Delhi on February 13, 2013 in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research and Health Effects Institute, Boston US. This workshop brought together the prominent medical doctors, health …
How will solar energy be made to work in India? As I discussed in my previous article, there are three key challenges. One, how will the country pay for solar energy in a situation where there is no money to pay for even the crashing costs of installation? Two, what …
Ahmedabad: The average age of guards in Palamau Tiger sanctuary is 53 and at Simlipal Tiger Sanctuary it is 49 years, but for guards in Gujarat it is 39 years. Officials said that of 388 staffers, 149 are 20 to 30 years old. The study carried out by deputy conservator …
US charges that India’s National Solar Mission is discriminating against foreign solar companies Hogwash, we say. The US has been dumping subsidised solar power panels in India. It is browbeating India to further the interests of its own solar companies. It is US which should be made answerable at the …
'It is an attempt to browbeat India and further the interest of US solar companies' The US has challenged India's solar energy policy before the World Trade Organisation (WTO), saying it favours domestic sourcing of solar panels. The challenge, filed on February 6, says the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission …
Residents of the Indian capital, who thought they had conquered air pollution a decade ago, are once again choking on exhaust fumes and dust and New Delhi has regained its status as one of the world’s dirtiest cities, according to environmental campaigners and official air quality data. Scientists have sounded …
Breathe Easy Plan calls for inspection of pvt vehicles, hike in parking charges. Shuttering coal power plants, promoting motor-less transport and strict penalty for those violating pollution control norms are among the suggestions that the government is looking at to improve the air quality in the city over the next …
