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. …
Why India protested the green economy agenda proposed by developed countries at Rio+20 Rio de Janeiro: The just concluded Rio+20 summit was dominated by the buzzwords ‘green economy’ and ‘natural capital accounting’, proposed by developed countries led by the European Union, World Bank and the Global Environment Facility. Speaking out …
A lot of high-flown rhetoric ushered in last week's UN Conference on Sustainable Development. Rio+20 was the biggest summit the UN had ever organised. Some 40,000 environmentalists and 10,000 government officials gathered with politicians from 190 nations for a meeting which the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said was "too important …
At a time when the tiger population is fast dwindling, India has reported an alarming increase in tiger deaths. An estimated 48 tigers have reportedly died in the first six months of this year (till June 10). Nearly 40 per cent of the total deaths have been caused due to …
Rainwater can be a potential alternative source for tackling acute water crisis faced by rural and urban people, said experts yesterday. Store and reuse of rainwater will also help costal people tackle issue of salinity and reduce excessive pressure on groundwater, which is the major source of drinking water, they …
The Vizag Steel Plant (VSP), where one of the worst industrial accidents in the steel industry took place on Wednesday night, had been warned about its poor safety record but its management ignored all such warnings. The steel plant, ironically a Navaratna company, was rated the last for its safety …
As the scarcity of surface water is hitting a critical level with the steady fall in ground water level as well, experts are now laying emphasis on harvesting rain water to carry out essential household services and irrigate land where it is possible. The concept is not new, but the …
The assertion by a section of industry that the coal shortage is due to the ministry of environment delaying mining clearances is not borne out by data The assertion by a section of industry that the current shortage of coal is due to a delay on the part of the …
Absence of a sewerage treatment plant in Bhubaneswar has led to release of urban and industrial effluents into the rivers untreated, in turn polluting the rivers from which Capital sources its drinking water, a latest study on sewage management has revealed. ‘Excreta Matters’ by Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment …
Some good sanitation news, discussed in a Nature commentary this week, is that some 80 percent of India’s urban residents now have access to a toilet. The bad news is that only a third of India’s urban households with a toilet have a connection to a sewage pipe network, and …
Water pollution from sewage is causing great damage to India. The nation needs to complete its waste systems and reinvent toilet technologies, says Sunita Narain.
Sixty per cent of people living in India do not have access to toilets, and hence are forced to defecate in the open. In actual numbers, sixty per cent translates to 626 million. This makes India the number one country in the world where open defecation is practised. Indonesia with …
Fumes from diesel engines cause lung cancer, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), based in Lyon, France, issued a notification on Tuesday identifying diesel as a confirmed carcinogen similar to asbestos and arsenic. Experts quoted in the Western media said diesel …
New Delhi: On paper, about 12% of Delhi’s water needs are met by groundwater reserves. Unofficially, the figure almost touches 50%. A recent analysis of groundwater abuse conducted by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) reveals that over 2,000 private tankers draw groundwater from tubewells and sell it to residential …
The iron and steel sector is non-transparent, non-compliant with weak environmental norms and is getting away with it because of an even weaker regulatory framework When the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) started its Green Rating Project in the mid-1990s, India had just liberalised its economy. There were fears …
Better regulation of the sector is needed The environmental performance of the Indian iron and steel industry is poor, according to the latest indices released by the Green Rating Project of the Centre for Science and Environment. On a scale of 10 (the theoretical best), the global best practitioners score …
With car ridership set to boom by 106 per cent, Delhi's air pollution and congestion crisis is bound to worsen, warns a survey by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). Calling for transport planning that hinges on sustainability, equity, and a people-centric approach, the CSE survey, released on World Environment …
Steel major Essar Steel Ltd (ESL) has received the CSE's Green Rating Award for its efforts towards resource use efficiency and steel slag re-use. Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, and Ms Jayanthi Natarajan, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests, presented The Three Leaves Award to …
Indian steel companies are getting away with causing grave damage to the environment. They are not even adhering to the country’s already lax environmental laws – despite using large amounts of minerals, water and electricity. This was revealed in a report recently released by the Centre for Science and Environment, …
“At this rate, the Capital will be gasping for breath by 2021” Delhi's air quality is worsening and if urgent action is not taken we will have a serious problem at hand, warns Centre for Science and Environment's latest report card. “The summer of 2012 is a grim reminder of …
RINL along with two other companies (Ispat Industries and Essar Steel) bagged the prestigious award with "3 Leaves rating" out of 5 leaves. Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited has received the prestigious Green Rating Award based on assessment done by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) for achieving several benchmarks on …
