Updates

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Press Release: National Research Conference on Climate Change

IITs join hands with CSE to set up climate research network.

Media Resource Centre, Climate Adaptation, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Climate Mitigation, CSE Press Release, Press Release
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The Gobar Times Green Schools Awards and Festival

Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit and noted film personality, Sharmila Tagore gave away awards to the top Green Schools at National level and state level for Delhi schools on February 20th 2010 in New Delhi.

Green Schools Program, Green School Awards, Story
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CSE Special: Moratorium on Bt brinjal: Jairam Ramesh

On February 9, minister of state for environment Jairam Ramesh announced an indefinite moratorium on introducing Bt brinjal.
Read more: 

Bt brinjal, Food Safety, GM Crops, Story, Special Report
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Toxic toys

We generally take toys for granted but this may no longer be the case atleast not if we are concerned about the health of our young children.

Toxic Toys, CSE Study, Health Effects, India, Pesticides And Toxins, Story
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Born into Hell

Continuing nightmare in Bhopal: CSE laboratory tests soil, water samples from Union Carbide. Finds high contamination of pesticides and other toxins.

CSE, CSE Study, Health Effects, India, Pesticides And Toxins, Story, Food safety and toxins
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Footfalls: Obstacle Course to Livable Cities

This study provides detailed analysis of walking conditions in Indian cities. The analysis indicates that walkability is overlooked and undervalued in transport planning, and that improved walkability is justified for equity and efficiency sake.

CSE Study, Delhi, Non Motorised Vehicles, Pedestrians, Public Transport, Reports, Public Transport and Mobility
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South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change

Over 120 journalists, representing seven South Asian countries, recently came together at New Delhi’s India Habitat Centre to receive a briefing on climate change: its science, impacts, mitigation strategies, politics and global negotiations.

Media Briefing Workshops, Climate Change, Story
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Reform Agenda for India's Environmental Regulators

This study aims to identify the gaps between existing regulatory provisions and implementing capacity of the SPCBs in India.

Reports, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Regulators Programme
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Review of the interceptor plan for the Yamuna

CSE has closely scrutinised the detailed project report of the interceptor plan prepared by the consultants appointed by the Delhi Jal Board and found this hardware plan to be a complete waste of money.

River Pollution, Story, Yamuna

Blogs: Recent Posts

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Anumita Roychowdhury
Policy Police
5 March 2010
Snakes and ladder on diesel taxes | 0 comments
diesel cars, Public Transport, Air Pollution
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Sunita Narain
Down To Earth
3 March 2010
Before cars take over | 5 comments
Ahmedabad, BRT, Cars, Delhi, GPS, Public Transport, Sunita Narain, Public Transport and Mobility
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Sunita Narain
Down To Earth
16 February 2010
Bt Brinjal: why we should not make a mash of it | 10 comments
Bt brinjal, GM Crops, Jairam Ramesh, Food safety and toxins
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Sumita Dasgupta
Learning Environment
11 February 2010
School admissions: a weighty debate | 2 comments
Children, Education, Environment Education, Sanitation, schools, Vehicles
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CSE Specials

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Special Report
Joining the Dots

The report of the Tiger Task Force.

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Mining and Environment
Rich lands poor people: Is 'sustainable' mining possible?

 
Outlines the immense challenges facing the mining sector in India: how to ensure ecological security together with inclusive development. Includes detailed maps, data tables and in-depth case studies of mineral-rich states.

Latest CSE Products

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Climate Change: Politics and Facts

This is a new book from Centre for Science and Environment that attempts to demystify the subject through a set of comprehensive and concise factsheets. A one-stop storehouse of information on climate change, as it is an aid towards understanding and appreciating the danger that stares us in the face.

Price: Rs 340.00 (USD 14)
Pages: 107

Order now>>

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Mean Sea Level

 

Around 7500 Kms from the heart of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] in Geneva or the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC] secretariat in Bonn, Ghoramara and Sagar islands are going through their own testimony of climate change related phenomena.

Format: DVD
Duration: 58:25 Minutes
Price: Rs 950.00 (USD 30)

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CSE Announcements

Training Course on Urban Rainwater Harvesting

Date: March 30 - April 3, 2010
 
Apply now and get answers to your water problems through a hands on workshop.

Managing Information in the Digital Age

Date:  April 6 - 9, 2010

A South Asia training programme on library, information management, documentation and web-based outreach.

Global Warming in a Still Unequal World - Registration Open

This is an e-primer on the phenomenon, science and politics of climate change from a developing country perspective. This online learning is a must for students, teachers, NGOs, CBOs, INGO, government representatives and environment consultants.

Agenda for survival

Date: June 1 - 30, 2010

A month-long summer certificate course on environment / development issues allows participants to understand and critically evaluate issues that lie at the interface of environment and development; poverty; democracy, equity and justice.

Survey for Citizen’s Report on Urban Air Pollution and Mobility: Hyderabad

Centre for Science and Environment along with concerned citizens and partners of its clean air campaign is organising a citizens’ survey to understand the challenge of air pollution and transportation crisis in Hyderabad.

Press Releases

March 6, 2010
Press Release: National Research Conference on Climate Change

IITs join hands with CSE to set up climate research network

Media Resource Centre, Climate Adaptation, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Climate Mitigation, CSE Press Release, Press Release
February 26, 2010
CSE Press Note - Union Budget 2010-11: What does it say on the ‘green’ concerns
  • An analysis done by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
  • Says Budget does not offer much relief to green causes, except that of energy 
Media Resource Centre, Budget, Fuel Pricing, Ganga, Press Release, Public Transport, Renewable Energy
February 19, 2010
Press Release: CSE Green Schools Awards

Semi-urban and mid-rung schools are India’s ‘greenest’.

Media Resource Centre, Green School Awards, Press Release
February 9, 2010
Press Release: CSE supports environment minister on Bt-brinjal

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has come out in support of the verdict on Bt-brinjal given here today by Jairam Ramesh, minister of state (independent charge) for environment and forests.

Agriculture, Bt brinjal, CSE, Genetic Engineering, GMOs, Press Release, Food safety and toxins
February 5, 2010
Press Release: Formula to tax diesel cars ineffective, says CSE

Digs holes in Kirit Parikh panel’s report

Air Quality and Public Health, CSE, diesel cars, Petrol pricing, Press Release
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