Kathmandu can manage its urban transportation and become pollution-free if it builds on its strengths - its emission-free non-motorised transport: says CSE
Kathmandu, July 27, 2012
Kathmandu, July 27, 2012
US charges that India’s National Solar Mission is discriminating against foreign solar companies
Latest Global Burden of Disease count ranks air pollution as a major killer. Deaths caused by outdoor air pollution has increased three-fold in 10 years
CSE cautions against Cabinet Committee on Investment bulldozing these systems
Delhi has yet to wake up the mobility crisis. Increased use of cars is reducing people carrying capacity of roads. Total walk and cycle trips are more than double the share of car trips.
Laboratory study tests soil, water, fish and human blood, nails and hair.
India should walk out of the Doha negotiations if equity is not made a part of the deal, says Sunita Narain in Doha
New Delhi November 10, 2012:
Visionary judgment from the Delhi High Court upholds the principle of sustainable mobility
Delhi is used to winter smogs. But this year’s haze has been particularly severe because pollution levels in the city have gone up manifold – PM10 has increased by 47 per cent between 2000 and 2011, while nitrogen dioxide has gone up by 57 per cent
Puts out new data to prove that green clearances are not delaying infrastructure projects
The city must think differently – ask its rich water-using population to pay, recharge its groundwater systems, and build on the strength of its tanks and lakes
Puts out new data to prove that green clearances are not delaying infrastructure projects
Will set up a premier Environmental Training Institute near Delhi
From left to right: Mr. Sandipan Mukherjee, Member Sec. WBPCB, Ms. Sunita Narain, DG CSE, Dr. Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar, Environment Minister, West Bengal, Mr. Chandra Bhushan, DDG, CSE, and Mr. S K Roy, Chief Blast Furnace, Tata Steel Jamshedpur West Bengal-based steelmakers rank as some of the worst of the lot