CSE weekly update, October 26–November 1, 2026

Events &
happenings

Tuesday

Webinar

Redesigning PM-KUSUM 2.0

PM-KUSUM – the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthan Mahabhiyan scheme – has entered its second phase. The Renewable Energy team’s webinar on it aims to ask a very pertinent question: what have been the learnings till now, and what must we get right in this second phase?

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Tuesday

Webinar

Agenda for Survival – Communicating for Impact

The Environment Education team’s 2026 version of Agenda for Survival, an online capacity-building sub-programme for college and university students, will draw to a close with this session. About 40 young minds have undergone a series of sessions focused on clean energy and just transition and produced an equal number of articles guided by CSE and external experts. Three seasoned journalists and journalism trainers will interact with the cohort and bring the year’s AfS to a close.

The announcement will be up soon on the CSE website.

Tuesday–Thursday

Workshop and Training

Prevention and Sustainability in the Indian Dairy Sector

The Sustainable Food Systems team’s three-day programme at AAETI takes forward its work on management of the livestock and dairy sector. The focus will be on how preventive and sustainable approaches can contribute to making the sector disease-resistant, cost-effective and capable of generating more livelihoods and safer milk.

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Friday

Webinar

Life beneath the Litter – Lessons on Marine Conservation

The Environment Education unit has been working with students and teachers from schools in and around India’s coastal regions. Its Marine Marshals sub-programme aims to rev up awareness and engagement on issues of marine litter management among this audience, and this webinar is a key cog in that process. Wildlife Trust of India’s marine conservation specialist Sajan John will be the speaker.

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Friday–Saturday

Webinars

Manthan – Understanding Extreme Weather: Super El Nino and Droughts

A two-part Manthan series for journalists writing in Hindi will touch upon two critical subjects – El Nino and the science behind it, and the anatomy of a drought as an extreme weather event. This is a Down To Earth-Hindi and Outreach initiative, and can offer a good kick-off for the online release of CSE's annual extreme weather e-publication (happening on November 4).

The announcement will be up soon on the CSE website.

In-depths, Campaigns, Interviews, Edits, Videos, Podcasts and Infographics

Campaign

World AMR Awareness Week. November 18-24, 2026

The Sustainable Food Systems team will, once again, anchor a series of webinars, publications etc to mark this week, with a broad thematic thrust on ‘Prevention-led pathways to a sustainable food system’. A calendar for the week will be up on the CSE website soon.

Training
Programmes

Looking Back…
and Ahead

Sustainable urbanisation · Clean air-mobility

The West Bengal State Action Plan on Climate Change – which CSE’s sustainable urbanisation and clean air-mobility teams anchored and helped the state government prepare – has been approved by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change.