| Date: 13th December '97
The battle between developed and developing nations has not ended. It will
continue in the months ahead as the protocol has left many things open for future
negotiations leading up to the next conference of parties scheduled to be held in Buenos
Aires in 1998," says a team of the Centre for Science and Environment, a New
Delhi-based NGO, which attended the Kyoto conference.
Date: 6th November '97
A potential bargaining tool to challenge the inequitable sharing of global common
resources, such as the atmosphere, is slipping out of the hands of the South for good,
according to Anil Agarwal, Director, Centre for Science and Environment New Delhi.
Date: 1st November '97
A study by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), using air pollution data
for 1995 provided by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), estimates that a
stupendous 51,779 people are dying prematurely every year in 36 Indian cities.
Date: 18th October '97
In a letter addressed to the Prime Minister I K Gujral, Centre for Science and
Environment (CSE) along with several eminent persons such as CSE director and
Environmentalist Anil Agarwal, former Chief Justice of India Justice P N Bhagwati and
several other Non Government Organisations have cautioned the Prime Minister Shri I K
Gujral against giving the State forest lands as Captive Plantations to the Paper and Pulp
Industry to grow their captive raw material.
Date: 13th May '97
Stop misinformation and come out with truth
CSE sends legal notice to water supply body
Date: 6th May '97
CSE's report on Traditional Water Systems
"Let the communities manage the water resources using the traditional harvesting
systems--for the government’s dams-and-canals approach has ruined them."
Date: 11th Mar '97
Report on Traditional Water Systems released by Smt. Sonia Gandhi.
"Let the communities manage the water resources using the traditional harvesting
systems--for the government till now has only made a mess of it."
Date: 6th Dec '96
Latest scientific research shows that pesticides suppress the immune system,
causing people to fall ill and often die. Countries of the developing world, like India,
face the gravest threat. The Centre for Science and Environment calls upon the government,
civil society, farmers organisations and agricultural scientists to join hands in
preventing an epidemic of cancers and fatal disorders of the immune system by drawing up a
scientific policy on pesticides use and their eventual phasing out.
Date: 3rd Nov '96
40,000 people die due to air pollution in just six cities of India every year. In many
cities, especially in Delhi, vehicular air pollution is the biggest killer, and the people
responsible for this are the petroleum minister, the environment minister and automobile
magnates like Rahul Bajaj. The latest investigation by Down to Earth nails them for slow
murder.
"The automobile industry has its head buried in
profit... and ours in smoke" the report says.
Date: 17th Oct '96
The decision by the United States of America to ban the import of trawled shrimps from
India has sparked off a debate between two leading environmental NGOs of India and USA --
the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), and the US-based Earth Island
Institute (EII).
Date: 29th Sep '96
"Every year, Indians pay Rs 34,000 crore due to environmental
degradation. 40,000 people die in just six of our cities annually due to air
pollution"... says a report in Down To Earth |
