About Anil Agarwal

The Anil Agarwal Green Centre (AAGC) has been established in the memory of leading environmentalist and founder director of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Anil Agarwal. Agarwal’s ideas on environment and sustainability remain relevant even today.

He believed in the need to balance economic growth and ecological concern -- an issue he described as ‘the challenge of the balance’.


About Anil Agarwal Green Centre

The Anil Agarwal Green Centre (AAGC) is Centre for Science and Environment’s (CSE’s) most recent initiative in making knowledge investments in society through education and training programmes.

Housed in a building adjacent to CSE’s main office, AAGC has state-of-art training facilities. Programmes at AAGC help participants better understand issues that lie at the interface of environment and development policy, science, technology, poverty, democracy and equity.

AAGC courses range from technical workshops on how to build rainwater harvesting systems to policy briefings on ecological poverty and food safety, to hands-on training on environmental communication and advocacy.

The courses address a wide range of interest groups -- students, academicians, government officials and regulators, mid-level professionals in the development sector, urban planners, engineers and journalists, among others.

So far, AAGC has conducted more than 40 short-term training programmes on natural resource management, policy workshops and capacity-building courses for more than 1,000 participants from India and abroad.