First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
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India’s first-ever environmental rating of coal-based power plants finds the sector’s performance to be way below global benchmarks
New Delhi, February 21, 2015: Indian coal-based thermal power plants are some of the most inefficient in the world -- says a two-year long research study by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). The
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Centre for Science and Environment among top 20 environmental think tanks of the world
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has been ranked 17th among a global listing of top environmental think tanks. CSE also features on the top of the chart among environmental think tanks in the developing
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CSE welcomes new draft order to curb the use of antibiotics in animals like chicken
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has welcomed the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India’s (FSSAI) recent draft order which proposes to put curbs on the rampant use of antibiotics as a growth
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Centre for Science and Environment releases stunning data on the daily dose of polluted air that people breathe in Delhi
<p>As you do your morning walk in that so called ‘fresh air’, you are actually breathing in air which is thick and heavy with particulate pollution. And you are not safe from polluted air even
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Who is emitting
As per analysis of the Washington DC-based global research organisation World Resources Institute (WRI) for 2011, China, comprising almost 20 per cent of the world’s population, was the world’s leading
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Global emissions
In 2013, the Netherlands Environmental Agency (NEA) jointly with the European Commission (EC) published a report on global carbon emissions. One of the major highlights of the report was that 2012 was
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Extreme weather events
There has been evidence since 1950 of changes in climate extremes. Observed changes in climate extremes reflect the influence of anthropogenic climate change in addition to natural climate variability,
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Agriculture & Forestry
Agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) is a broad category of emissions that has been used by the IPCC since 2006. It widely used in national greenhouse gas inventories and combines two previously
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Energy efficiency of appliances
Even though the appliance penetration of India is lower than the global standard, its energy consumption is high and will increase. Indian appliance ownership is where China was two decades ago. Indian
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HFCs: Realising the potential for climate benefits from the Montreal Protocol
In 1987, the Montreal Protocol phased out the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), an ozone-depleting substance (ODS) used as coolants in refrigeration and air conditioning. Unfortunately, the chemicals