• Media Updates

CSE gets Business Standard award for being the 'public institution' of the year

New Delhi, February 18: Centre for Science an Environment (CSE) has been given the Business Standard award for 2015 for being the “public institution” of the year. The Business Standard award, given annually to companies and individuals, had introduced a new category for “public institution” for its 2015 awards. CSE’s deputy director general, Chandra Bhushan, who received the award at a ceremony in Mumbai, said, “We are pleased to find environmental issues at the centrestage.

• Renewable Energy

Solar thermal power and applications are being ignored in today's world of cheap photovoltaics: CSE

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) organises a conference on ‘The forgotten solar: Solar thermal and its development’

• Air Pollution

Auto Expo shows car industry is riding high on diesel and hard-selling diesel car models to add to the scary trend in toxic pollution exposure and lung cancer risk

Despite the misgivings regarding use of low-taxed diesel in the luxury segment, as many as 27 per cent of all displayed car/SUV models in Auto Expo were in the bracket of 2000 cc engines diesel that is banned in the NCR

• Air Pollution

CSE slams the statement of Jaguar and Land Rover Chief - about their cars being air-purifying machines - as irresponsible

CSE says car companies cannot be allowed to hide behind such misleading claims when the technology in India is lagging and there are raging concerns around toxic diesel emissions even in advanced markets today.  No car company can get away by making such remarks in any other country

• Water Management

India-Africa knowledge-sharing workshop discusses solutions for urban sanitation problems

Workshop attended by experts from India and South Africa

• Air Pollution

Kolkata residents breathe in air which has 3-5 times higher pollution levels than the ambient level that is already several times higher than the permissible limit. Action must gather momentum, says CSE's Kolkata study

Kolkata is in the grip of rising air pollution and multi-pollutant crisis. Official ambient air quality monitoring has shown 61 per cent increase in particulate matter in just four years (2010 to 2013). The levels exceed standards by 2.7 times. NO2 levels exceed by close to two times

• Media Updates

Delhi residents turn up in large numbers at CSE's Organic Farmers' Market to learn about good food

Live cooking and other demonstrations made at Organic Farmers’ Market organised by Centre for Science and Environment

• Media Updates

Green Educators' Network launched at CSE's Knowledge Conclave

Network will help educators in staying connected

• Air Pollution

Bengaluru residents actually breathe in air which has 3-12 times higher pollution levels than the ambient level - says CSE study in the city

Bengaluru is in the grip of rising air pollution. Official ambient air quality monitoring has shown 57 per cent increase in particulate matter in just four years. In more than 85 per cent of monitoring locations, the levels have exceeded standards

• Media Updates

CSE holding Organic Farmers' Market at IHC on January 30 to promote good food

Organic Farmers’ Market to be held on January 30 at India Habitat Centre lawns

• Air Pollution

Delhi has lost the air quality gains of odd and even scheme. Delayed winter will make pollution worse if quicker steps are not taken to sustain the gains, says CSE

Delayed winter will make pollution worse if quicker steps are not taken to sustain the gains, says CSE

• Media Updates

New Crop Insurance Policy is a step in the right direction but needs improvements: CSE

CSE welcomes the new crop insurance scheme but recommends further reforms to make it universal, inclusive and more effective 

• Air Pollution

"A great step forward", says CSE, on the Union government's move to leapfrog to Euro VI emissions standards in 2020

Diesel car emissions will be reduced to the level of petrol emissions; diesel particulate levels from diesel cars, buses and trucks will come down drastically

• Food and Toxins

Latest study by CSEs Pollution Monitoring Lab finds Antibiotic Residues in chicken

Growing antibiotic-resistance in humans also because of large-scale indiscriminate use of antibiotics in poultry industry, claims CSE study

• Air Pollution

Air pollution this winter has been worse than last - CSE urges emergency action and support to odd and even system

Cutting cars by half can reduce direct exposure to highly toxic emissions by several times

• Air Pollution

Make bus the game changer, says CSE

It is shocking how bus transport that carries double the number of passengers in Delhi Metro is degenerating when Delhi has to reduce personal vehicle usage to curb pollution and congestion