Media Resource Centre
Second Country Media Briefing on Air Quality and Urban Mobility
Colombo, April 27,2011
Almost every South Asian city today is reeling under severe air pollution and gridlocked urban traffic. Colombo has the advantage of having the sea by its side, but it is still struggling with polluting fuels, outdated vehicle technologies and rising numbers of private vehicles leading to massive congestion.
A con game called ‘clearance’
Venue: CSE Office, Core 6A, Fourth Floor,
India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road
Day and date: Thursday, September 22, 2011
Time: 2.30 PM
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In the last five years, the Union ministry of environment and forests has given forest clearances to coal companies to extract at least 583 million tonne of coal per year.
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Press Invite: CSE to release critique of new environment ministry report
CSE questions recently released environment ministry report on air pollution sources, uncovers serious fallacies in it
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