Air Pollution

Work Overview

What happened to our right to CLEAN AIR!

Our campaign started with blowing the lid on smog and exposing the smogmakers in a city where a person dies every hour due to air pollution. The campaign carries on to clean the air of noxious pollutants to make breathing easier for all.

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Updates

City Action
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City Action: Citizens Report on Air Quality and Urban Mobility, Kanpur

The Centre for Science and Environment releases an in-depth report on the city of Kanpur as part of its ongoing initiative to build city action on clean air and mobility.
Air Quality Monitoring, Habitat And Urbanisation, Health Effects, Kanpur, Mobility Planning, Story, Urban Transport, Uttar Pradesh, Vehicular Pollution, City Action
Climate and Transport
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CSE Roundtable on Transport and Climate

CSE organised a roundtable discussion on 'Transport and climate: building an agenda for action' along with the Global Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport in New Delhi on November 18, 2009. This brought together experts, policy makers, and civil society groups to discuss the climate imperatives of the transportation sector.
Campaign Outreach, Climate, Energy and Transport, Climate and Transport
Vehicle Technology and Fuel
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Is clean diesel a myth or a solution?

Controlling urban air pollution is turning out to be an enormous challenge not only because of the rising numbers of total vehicles but also due to the increased toxic risk from the growing numbers of diesel cars. There is considerable public and policy concern regarding rapidly rising diesel car numbers in Indian cities.
Campaign Outreach, CSE Study, diesel cars, emission norms, health effects of air pollution, Vehicle Technology and Fuel
Air Quality and Public Health
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CSE welcomes new National Ambient Air Quality Standards

New Delhi, November 18, 2009: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has welcomed the newly notified Revised National Ambient Air Quality Standards, which were announced here today by Jairam Ramesh, the minister of state (independent charge) for environment and forests.
Air Quality and Public Health, CSE Press Note, CSE Press Release, CSE Study, Press Release

Latest Clippings

Dirty roads behind Delhi’s dust haze
Neha Sinha Enkempt roads, covered with construction waste and dust, are harming us more than just being eyesores. The pall of dust often seen hanging over the city owes much of its existence to the dirty Capital roads. read more

Announcements

  • 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 and identify the way forward.  We look forward to your support and participation to find solutions to one of the most critical public health and mobility crisis facing our cities today.

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Smog Digest

  • Smog Digest

    Smog digest is a news service on vehicular pollution based on news clippings selected from leading Indian newspapers and newsmagazine. It also highlights the key developments from South Asian countries. The month witnessed lots of action and developments on the vehicular pollution front in India.

    February 2010

  • Smog Digest

    Smog digest is a news service on vehicular pollution based on news clippings selected from leading Indian newspapers and newsmagazine. It also highlights the key developments from South Asian countries. The months witnessed lots of action and developments on the vehicular pollution front in India.

    January 2010

Products

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MOBILITY CRISIS – Agenda for Action 2010

 
CSE's latest book in its Right to Clean Air Campaign series. We have more roads and flyovers than ever before to address our transportation worries. But, unfortunately, roads in cities like Delhi are chock-a-block with bumper-to-bumper traffic, due to the huge ratio of cars as compared to buses. It is time to set new terms of action. Make the city more walkable. This book discusses in detail ways and means of dealing with pollution and congestion.
 
Price: Rs 290 (USD 12)
Pages : 110
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The Leapfrog Factor
Publication: The Leapfrog Factor

Ten years of action, learning and impacts. Presents the complex Asian challenge. The continent dodders as the automobile industry hardsells cars as the key to a lifestyle of wealth and freedom. Asia can survive only if it reinvents the idea of mobility.
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Publication: Slow Murder

Documents the deadly story of air pollution caused by vehicles. Vehicular pollution is no longer just an intangible threat in India - it contributes to a shocking 64 per cent of the total pollution in Delhi, 52 per cent in Mumbai and 30 per cent in Kolkata.
 
 
 
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Gobar Times