• Waste

Over 40 per cent of bio-medical waste generated in Jharkhand goes untreated, seriously endangering public health: CSE’s new study

Not Handled With Care, survey report by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is an effort to understand the state of bio-medical waste management in two of the biggest cities of Jharkhand, the gaps that exist and the path towards harnessing the opportunities

• Air Pollution

CSE: A Press Statement Delhi government budget: Are we losing the public transport agenda of aam aadmi?

Anumita Roycowdhury, executive director-research and advocacy, CSE

• Media Updates

2017 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) report says India has the second highest number of early deaths due to PM2.5 in the world -- nearly equals China

Early deaths due to ozone pollution are the highest in India

• Media Updates

FIRST FOOD: CULTURE OF TASTE Reclaiming India

Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant and chef Manjit Gill will release CSE’s new book on food which explores the nature-nutrition-livelihood linkages

• Water Management

Parties and governments promise to keep the Ganga clean, but do they mean it? Are they doing it?

CSE analysis says ‘no – they have miles to go before they can’

• Air Pollution

Government proposes implementation rules for the first-ever fuel consumption norms for passenger cars - CSE finds gaping holes in them

While public attention is diverted towards Bharat Stage IV emissions norms becoming the nation-wide standard from April 1 this year, the new compliance rules for fuel consumption norms for cars is escaping public scrutiny. 

• Air Pollution

Is India prepared to prevent manufacturing defects and frauds in vehicles that compromise their emissions performance on roads?

The current PUC norms are not only too lenient to fail a vehicle, they cannot test tiny particles and NOx from in-use vehicles. Lax norms and poor enforcement make the PUC programme very ineffective. This needs an overhaul.

• Air Pollution

Globalisation has increased inequity, and is at the core of our problems today: Sunita Narain addresses audiences at Jaipur Lit Fest

Narain releases State of India’s Environment 2017, an annual publication from Down To Earth magazine, at the Jaipur Literature Festival

• Waste

Muzaffarpur Nagar Nigam embarks on a mission to turn Muzaffarpur into a smart, clean city

With help from New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment, launches initiative for source segregation of waste in 14 wards

• Renewable Energy

Housing societies should replace diesel generator (DG) sets with rooftop solar power systems, recommends CSE

New CSE analysis finds solar rooftop power tariff is half the cost of power generated by DG sets

• Water Management

National Seminar(s) "Mainstreaming Sustainable Urban Water Management: Issues and Challenges in Policy and Practice"

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• Waste

Muzaffarpur Nagar Nigam joins hands with Centre for Science and Environment to turn Muzaffarpur into a smart, clean city

‘SWACHHTA SWASTHYA SAMRIDHI’ – a workshop on management of solid waste and sanitation in Muzaffarpur - sees participation by all key municipal functionaries and political leaders of the city

• Air Pollution

Air Pollution in Delhi touches emergency levels once again

As temperature dips and wind speed slows down, air pollution touches the emergency levels once again

• Air Pollution

A huge step forward, says Centre for Science and Environment, of the road transport and highways ministry's move to notify implementation of Euro VI (Bharat Stage VI) emissions standards for all vehicles in 2020

This move to side-step Euro V norms and leapfrog directly to Bharat Stage VI (BSVI) emissions standards, will help reduce pollution impacts of motorisation in India

• Climate Change

US fast food companies in India not doing enough to cut down on emissions of HFCs, a super greenhouse gas, says CSE

Date: September 16, 2016

• Excreta Matters

CSE proposes novel policy framework for planning, designing and implementing best management practices on mainstreaming sustainable water & wastewater in India

Policy framework for water conservation/efficiency and energy efficiency will lead to making India a water frugal economy and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)