From February 11 to February 13, about 100 journalists, environmentalists and experts from all over India came together in a state-of-the-art symposium to discuss, debate and demystify the year’s key issues of environment and development. CSE’s Annual Media Conclave – the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2019 – officially unveiled the Down To Earth State of India’s Environment 2019 annual report, with former Supreme Court Justice Madan B Lokur and Editorial Director of Business Standard T N Ninan doing the honours.
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Prsentations [Day 1] |
Time up for Reinvention? By: Sunita Narain, Director General, CSE |
Weather variability or climate change: de-coding the extreme events that are defining our today By: Sunita Narain, Director General, CSE |
IPCC 1.5°C Report By: Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General |
Being a farmer By: Richard Mahapatra Sr. Director/Managing Editor DTE |
Mgnregs and Agriculture By: Ashok Pankaj, Director, (CSD), New Delhi |
Jal Saheli and Pani Panchayat Parmarth Samaj Sevi Sansthan |
Prsentations [Day 2] |
changes in open defecation in rural India: 2014-2018 By: Nazar Khalid, Research Fellow, (RICE), Gurugram |
Behaviour Change and its effects on Swachh Bharat Mission: Stories from India By: Megha Sen, Programme Officer, CLTS Foundation, Kolkata |
Sustainable Sanitation: Sustaining Lives By: Avani Kapur, Director, Accountability Initiative,(CPR), |
Faecal Connection - Ganga and its cities By: Suresh Kumar Rohilla, Senior Programme, Director, Water and Wastewater Management, CSE |
Environmental Governance in India: Where are we headed? By: Shilpa Chohan, Environmental Lawyer, Gurugram |
Sanitation & Our Rivers-The Tale of the Toilet: A Half-Story By: Sushmita Sengupta, Programme Manager, Rural Water and Waste Management |
Air Pollution and Mobility: Choking and Grounded By: Anumita Roychowdhury, Executive Director Research and Advocacy |
Air Quality Trends in India from Source to Forecasty By: SAFAR-India |
Electric Mobility – agenda for discussion By: Gaurav Dubey, Programme Manager - Sustainable Mobility Programme |
Human-Wildlife Conflicts: Animals, Humans & the question of ‘And’ & ‘Or’ By: Ravi Chellam, Chief Executive Officer, Metastring Foundation |
Some Thoughts By: Ajay Deshpande, Former Expert Member, National Green Tribunal |
State of the environment and the status of the environment regulators in India |
Feasibility of Waste to Energy plants in India By: Swati Singh Sambyal, Programme Manager, Environmental Governance-Solid |