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  CSE’s Weekly Bulletin
CSE’s Weekly Bulletin
September 16, 2026
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The Clean Air Concern
Sunita Narain
Editor, Down To Earth
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  Himalayan blunders and beyond  
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Nepal floods is not simply a natural disaster. It is a warning about climate change, reckless development and our belief that nature can be controlled
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As I write this, over 1,300 lives are confirmed lost and many thousands are still missing in the floods in Nepal, as the mighty Himalayas came down as rubble. This is an enor-mous and painful human tragedy, but it is also about willful actions and inactions of humans. This tragedy is really about our mindset, the be-lief that we, as humans, can re-engineer everything; that we are in control of the universe and all things in it. We are the supreme beings who can weather climate change, because, after all, it is only about a small and insignificant matter of weather. This is on us... Continue Reading
 
Here's what to watch out for this month at CSE
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Please visit www.cseindia.org for more training programmes and announcements.
 
    In The Spotlight: CSE at Just Transition and Sustainable Development meet in Beijing
 
CSE is 47!
 
Avantika Goswami of CSE's Climate Change and Green Economy team delivered a keynote speech at a workshop hosted in Beijing by China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment. The workshop, which was attended by diplomats and civil society representatives from 28 nations of the Global South, focused on the topic of 'Just Transition and Sustainable Development for the Global South'. Avantika spoke on India's climate policies.
 
From Down To Earth
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Wake-up call
The ice-and-rock avalanche that brought Nepal to its knees has bearings of a warming Himalayas and geological degradation
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India’s eco-sensitive zones
Designed as a managed buffer between national parks and incompatible land use, Eco-Sensitive Zones have been reduced to gazette entries—their governing committees unformed, their management plans unwritten, their ecological purpose subordinated to urban real estate and infrastructure
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India has found microplastics everywhere
So why are we still unsure how to regulate them?
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Gross trust deficit
Indians seem to strongly support authoritarianism. Is this a result of growing up in a less equal system?
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