CSE India

Jul 19, 2024 | cseindia.org | Anumita Roychowdhury |MP George

NCAP must not get reduced to being just a dust control programme: CSE 64 per cent of funds under NCAP and 15th Finance Commission spent on road dust mitigation; much less allocated for controlling emissions from combustion sources such as industries, vehicles and biomass burning Benchmark for assessing performance of cities focused on PM10 – CSE calls for changing the focus to the more harmful PM2.5 Mismatch between systems of assessing performance of cities – cities recording high scores for...

May 23, 2024 | cseindia.org | Sharanjeet Kaur

Research direction: Anumita RoychowdhuryAuthors: Avikal Somvanshi and Sharanjeet Kaur Center for Science and Environment, May 2024 Even as unprecedented heat waves lashed Indian cities worsening the urban heat island effects this summer, there are far deeper and longer term evidences on the nature of this changing trend impacting the Indian mega cities. The new analysis by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) shows that the heat stress is not just about rising temperature.

Sep 8, 2023 | cseindia.org | Sunita Narain |Siddharth Singh

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and Down To Earth magazine, in association with Media for Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture (MESHA), invite journalists to the release of the inaugural edition of State of Africa’s Environment Report 2023. The release function will be followed by a two-day media briefing on some of the key aspects that the report covers. Published by the New Delhi-based fortnightly, Down To Earth, this report will be an annual feature from now on.