Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), has reviewed the performance of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the end of its two years in office on measures of environmental governance, particularly as undertaken by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC). CSE analysis focuses on some key areas which have remained matters of discussions and debates- including green clearances, industrial pollution control and monitoring, air pollution, waste management, cleaning Ganga, proposed reforms for forest governance and climate change. Following key trends emerge in terms of action and decision-making in these areas. Download pdf
The rate at which urban air pollution has grown across India is alarming. Read more
India is a mineral-rich country, with more than 20,000 mineral deposits. The country produces about 90 minerals, which include four fuel, 10 metallic, 50 non-metallic, three atomic and 23 minor min
India is the seventh largest country in the world with an area of 328.72 million hectares (mha). The forest and tree cover of the country -- as per the biennial assessment report, 2011 prepared by
Urgent action is needed so that the city does not negate gains of first generation reforms for combating air pollution
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The history of the politics E quity has been central to the multilateral negotiations on climate change mitigation and adaptation between the South and the North. The dispute is not with the science that establishes the need to keep global temperature rise below 2°C, measured from pre-industrial levels, as the threshold that will leash in climate change from being ‘dangerous’ to becoming ‘catastrophic’. The dispute is that once the world accepts the need to cap temperature, it is also accepting the need to cap emissions, because of which temperatures are increasing. Read more