Tag: Centre for Science and Environment

Policy & others
Pullution control boards lacking transparency, new study finds

Pullution control boards lacking transparency, new study finds

Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has released a study assessing how transparent state pollution control boards (PCBs) are, in terms of putting out environmental and governance information into the public domain.  The study…

Plastic
CSE: ‘Plastic waste is India’s most formidable challenge’

CSE: ‘Plastic waste is India’s most formidable challenge’

Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s exhortation for an end to single-use plastics in India, the government had acted with alacrity and announced a phasing out of such plastics by 2022. However, it has now backtracked…

Plastic
CSE Report: Need to incentivise plastic recycling

CSE Report: Need to incentivise plastic recycling

The Centre for Science and Environment has released a comprehensive background paper on plastic waste management in India. Titled Managing Plastic Waste in India: Challenges and Agenda, this is CSE’s first document aimed at understanding…

News
CSE’s ‘State of India’s Environment in Figures 2020’ report released to mark World Environment Day

CSE’s ‘State of India’s Environment in Figures 2020’ report released to mark World Environment Day

New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment and Down to Earth magazine have released their annual publication State of India’s Environment in Figures 2020 which reveals India’s dismal track record with solid waste management. Below…