Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

Junk food busted

As we all know, junk food is defined as food with empty calories — it provides fat, sugar and salt, without nutrition. But how bad is it? This is what CSE's laboratory checked recently. The results were both predictable and alarming.

Source: http://csestore.cse.org.in/books/schoolsandenvironment/junk-food-busted....

Publication Date:

Oct 2013

Source: Centre for Science and Environment

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Junk Food, India, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Children, Environment Education

Air Pollution

Measuring air quality: Learning health impacts

Measuring air quality: Learning health impacts - a presentation by Anumita Roychowdhury at STEPPING TOGETHER: A Conclave of Changemakers for Clean Air and Sustainable Mobility held in New Delhi from September 26-27, 2013.

Author(s): Anumita Roychowdhury

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Air Pollution, Urban Air Quality, CSE, Vehicular Pollution, Air Quality Monitoring, Bangalore (T), Kolkata, Respiratory Diseases, Health Effects

Health

Minutes of the Meeting of the Expert Group on guidelines for making available quality and safe food in schools

Minutes of the Meeting of the Expert Group on guidelines for making available quality and safe food in schools. It was decided to constitute the Working Group from the members of the Expert Group to review the draft guidelines under the chairpersonship of Dr. Sunita Narain.

Publication Date:

25/09/2013

Source: Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI)

Tags:

Junk Food, Child Health, Health Effects, Sunita Narain, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI), High Court, Nutrition, Delhi

Climate Change

Black carbon

Black carbon - a presentation by Anumita Roychowdhury at CSE Annual South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, 2013 held in New Delhi from September 18-19, 2013.

Author(s): Anumita Roychowdhury

Tags:

Aerosols, CSE, Air Pollution, Health Effects, Heart Diseases, Respiratory Diseases, Cancer, PM 2.5, Biomass Gasification, Diesel, Chulhas (Cookstoves), Solar Radiation, Global Warming, Atmospheric Brown Clouds, Arctic, Glacial Melt, India

Climate Change

HFC: A lesson on how companies make money to save the world

Industrialised countries should phase out HFC says Sunita Narain, Director-General, CSE in this presentation at CSE Annual South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, 2013 held from September 18-19, 2013.

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Tags:

Ozone Hole, Atmosphere, CSE, Sunita Narain, Montreal Protocol, CFCs, Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), Developing Countries, United States Of America (US), Green House Gases, India, China, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Right To Information (RTI), Patents, Kyoto Protocol, UNFCCC

Climate Change

Renewable energy: Policy and practice

Renewable energy: Policy and practice - a presentation by Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director-General, CSE at CSE Annual South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, 2013 being held in New Delhi from September 18-19, 2013.

Author(s): Chandra Bhushan

Tags:

Climate Change, Renewable Energy, CSE, Energy Policy, Nuclear Energy, Fossil Fuels, India, Wind Energy, Biomass, Small Hydro Power, Solar Energy, Germany, Energy Efficiency, Statistics, Public Participation, Finance

Climate Change

The science of climate change and IPCC

The presentation by Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director-General, CSE at "CSE Annual South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, 2013" being held in New Delhi from September 18-19, 2013.

Author(s): Chandra Bhushan

Tags:

Climate Change, Climate Science, CSE, IPCC, Climate Impacts, Kyoto Protocol, Emission Targets, Green House Gases, Climate Adaptation, United States Of America (US), Climate Agreements, Global Warming, Climate Mitigation, Sea Level Rise, Rainfall Pattern, Extreme Weather Events

Climate Change

Global energy politics

Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director-General, CSE calls for a strategy that combines energy security, affordability with climate action in this presentation on global energy politics at "CSE Annual South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, 2013" being held in New Delhi from September 18-19, 2013.

Author(s): Chandra Bhushan

Tags:

Climate Change, Energy, CSE, Fossil Fuels, Coal, Natural Gas, Biomass, Biomass Gasification, Household Energy, Renewable Energy, United States Of America (US), Trade, Exports, Electricity, Africa, China, Energy Efficiency, India, Emission Targets

Climate Change

Climate Change - Facts and politics

South Asia is extremely vulnerable, it needs to act urgently to negotiate the climate deal said Sunita Narain, Director General, CSE in this presentation at the CSE Annual South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, 2013 being held in New Delhi from September 18-19, 2013.

Author(s): Sunita Narain

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Environment

Macho looks, vulnerable within

The Himalayas are depicted in popular iconography as the tough guys who stand tall—tallest, actually—protecting the subcontinent from invasions, both human and climatic.

Publication Date:

07/07/2013

Author(s): Rekha Dixit

Source: Week (Kochi)

Tags:

Ecosystems, Himalaya, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Floods, Ladakh, Earthquakes, Sikkim, Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), Nainital (D), High Court, Public Interest Litigation (PIL)