The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
A day after the US submitted its climate action plan to UNFCCC, a green body in India today said the targets were "completely inadequate" and "woefully" short of ambition. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) claimed the US target to curb greenhouse gas emissions is just a "reiteration" of …
The national capital's poor air quality may be killing silently and slowly, but successive governments, irrespective of which political party headed them, have seemed in no hurry to act. This is obvious from the number of draft "action plans" prepared since 2009, just after Delhi started losing the gains made …
North India switched to Euro IV fuels from Wednesday. The move is expected to lead to a steep reduction in particulate emissions from diesel vehicles but will not improve Delhi's air quality in the near future because several vehicle makers have expressed their inability to manufacture Euro IV compliant buses …
It doesn’t get bigger than this, in size, scale and rigour — scientists from one of India’s top cancer institutes tracked 11,000 schoolchildren in Delhi for three years. They were drawn from 36 schools, each within 3 km of a pollution-tracking station. This unprecedented study, by the Kolkata-based Chittaranjan National …
The Delhi Dialogue Commission, an advisory body of the AAP government, today stressed the need for an integrated public transport system to address transport -related problems being faced by the residents of the national capital. In the meeting, led by Transport Minister Gopal Rai and DDC vice-chairman Ashish Khetan, it …
The Delhi Dialogue Commission on Monday held a meeting with the Centre for Science and Environment and transport officials to come up with a roadmap for checking vehicular emission. Advocacy organisation CSE asked the Delhi government to write to the Centre to advance the roadmap for emissions standards. The Delhi …
A meeting on transport-related issues facing the Capital’s citizens was organised by the Delhi Dialogue Commission (DDC) chaired by Transport Minister Gopal Rai, and co-chaired by DDC vice-chairman Ashish Khetan, the Government said in a statement. There was focus on the need for integrated public transport systems in addition to …
Health experts have expressed shock and dismay over the Delhi high court's refusal to ban sale of junk food in schools. They claim that putting `restrictions', the suggested option, cannot help curb the menace which is associated with three of the four major non communicable diseases--cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers and …
The term `junk food' finds no mention in the FSSAI guidelines that were approved by the Delhi high court on Tuesday to regulate sale of food items in school canteens across the country. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw refused the plea of petitioner …
High Court Orders Strict Implementation Of New Guidelines By Govt Body. Availability of food items high in fat, sugar and salt such as noodles, pizzas, burgers and carbonated drinks is set to be restricted within 50 metres of schools across the country. Refusing to ban such foods in schools, Delhi …
The Delhi High Court today asked an environmentalist it appointed as amicus curiae to look into felling of 800 trees to widen a road in South Delhi's Vasant Kunj area to submit her report by April 9. Justice Rajiv Shakdher also asked the city government and the petitioner in the …
The Bombay High Court has admitted a defamation suit against "Down to Earth" magazine, edited by noted environmentalist Sunita Narain, asking it to remove an allegedly defamatory sentence in its report against Mumbai-based agrochemical company UPL, the company said on Monday. "My client has been requesting Sunita Narain to delete …
The Delhi High Court, on Monday, appointed environmentalist Sunita Narain as amicus curiae to look into the matter of chopping of 800 trees to widen a road connecting Andheria More to Fortis hospital in Vasant Kunj. The court of Justice Rajiv Shakdher asked Narain to file a report by April …
The world is clearly slipping on its targets to reign in heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Action on cutting carbon dioxide emissions is not easy as the world has to re-invent growth as it knows it today to reduce emissions, and it has to share that growth between nations. In …
Presentation by Sunita Narain Director General of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.
The winners of the TOI Social Impact Awards make India a kinder, better place. A doctor couple who have revolutionized the delivery of healthcare to tribals in Naxal-hit Gadchiroli district, a civil hospital in Ahmedabad which defies stereotypes about state-run institutions, a government programme to take science to children who …
Padmabhooshan Shri. Anil Agarwal, the founder of Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi and Editor of Down to Earth, who died on January 2, 2002, was a visionary leader who fought till his death for protecting India's environment. Science India offers tribute to Anilji, a tireless crusader for the …
NEW DELHI: Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today termed the land bill as a "win-win formula" for farmers. "... It will ensure a win-win formula for farmers...," he said on the sidelines of a book launch function at the Maharashtra Sadan here. Referring to the opposition faced by the government including …
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 availability of coal. But coal is also the dirtiest of all fossil fuels. It …
Impact assessments are conducted with the objective of safeguarding human health and the environment. The Environmental Impact Assessment notification of 2006, subsequent amendments and associated guidelines provide the framework to document untoward effects of proposed industrial and developmental projects on the environment, and to manage them. It is also implicitly …
