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

Sustainable Building
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Green - Building Rating: Overrated

Green Rating of Buildings Taking Roots

The idea of green rating of buildings has taken roots in India.
Sustainable Buliding, Sustainable Building, Story
Public Transport and Mobility
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CSE workshop: 'Our Right of Way: Walk and Cycle'

CSE’s clean air and urban mobility team organized a workshop ‘Our Right of Way: Walk and Cycle’ in New Delhi on March 22, 2012. This discussion forum included participants from all the key organsiations, stakeholders, civil society representatives, policy makers bicycle industries, cycle clubs and regulators. All witnessed the different source of knowledge at one go from different stakeholders.
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Public Transport and Mobility
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CSE conference on Clean and Sustainable Mobility for all: Agenda for Reforms

September 28-29, 2011, New Delhi
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Air Quality and Public Health
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CSE's Press Release: Dialogue on Air Pollution and our health

  • Doctors warn: We need to act fast to breathe easy

  • Noted doctors, health researchers and air quality regulators met in the capital today to warn that cities may wake up to more wheeze and other ailments if health concerns are not heeded for air pollution control.
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Sustainable Building
Conspiracy of Silence

Information shared by MoEF under RTI is minimal and partial. Further it took MoEF far more than a month to respond to the two RTIs filed by CSE. It makes mockery of the appraisal process as evident in the wide gap between information sought by us and the amount of information shared by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF- GoI). This opaqueness must go if cities have to demonstrate their progress towards sustainability.

Keep watching this space for more such revelations!

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Latest Clippings

Variations in air quality at filling stations, Delhi, India

The air was monitored for two consecutive periods, in the dry and the rainy seasons (2009-2010) at 40 petroleum-filling stations in the Indian capital, Delhi, to assess variations in carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, PM10, PM2.5, benzene, toluene and xylene content. PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations exceeded the national ambient air quality standards at all the monitoring locations with maximum values of 1105 and 625 μg m−3, respectively, in the dry season.

Main Topic:  Attachment(s):  variations in air quality.pdf thesaurus:  Name of the Journal:  Author:  Mark Content Private(Internal): External URL: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/genv/2011/00000068/00000006/art00005Email Alert: 845-849668Publication Date: 01/12/2011

Announcements

  • Orientation Programme on Managing Urban Air Quality: Focus on Clean Vehicle Technology and Fuels

    The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is organising a three-day orientation programme in New Delhi from March 15 - 17, 2012 for policy makers from different cities of India and South Asia. The objective of this forum is to promote good regulatory practices in air quality management, clean vehicle technology, fuels and management of in-use fleet and mobility management. Managing urban air quality is turning out to be a serious governance challenge in cities. More than half of Indian cities are reeling under serious particulate pollution.

  • Dialogue on Improving Quality and Performance of Natural Gas Vehicle Programme in South Asia

    Clean air and urban mobility programme of the Centre for Science and Environment in collaboration with Department of Environment, Government of Bangladesh, is organizing an experience sharing dialogue on “Improving quality and performance of natural gas vehicle programme in South Asia” on 20 January 2011 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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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 our cities continue to be gridlocked, with traffic at a virtual standstill as private vehicles hugely outnumber our public transport options. It is time to set new terms of action, make our cities more walkable, review our pollution and congestion control strategies…
 
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.

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 months witnessed lots of action and developments on the vehicular pollution front in India. 

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Capacity Building

Capacity Building

CSE organises orientation programmes for regulators from Indian and South Asian cities enabling regulatory capacity, facilitating intercity dialogue on common concerns, challenges and solutions through sharing of experiences.

 
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