Updates

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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

CSE Specials

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The report of the Tiger Task Force.

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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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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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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

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

Date:  April 6 - 9, 2010

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

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.

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.

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

February 26, 2010
  • An analysis done by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
  • Says Budget does not offer much relief to green causes, except that of energy 
February 19, 2010

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

February 9, 2010

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.