Date: 9th December '98
The Centre for Science and Environment flays the automobile industry for
misguiding the public about the proposed ban on new diesel cars in the National Capital
Territory (NCT) of Delhi.Date: 12th November '98
Industrialised countries want to have the cake and eat it too. President Carlos
Menem delivered it to them on a silver platter by agreeing to take on voluntary
commitments for Argentina.
Date: 11th November '98
At the climate change conference currently underway in Buenos Aires, developing
countries are being confused, coerced and bribed into signing the Clean Development
Mechanism
Date: 1st November '98
The GDP in India has gone up two and a half times in the past twenty years -- and
pollution from vehicles has gone up 8 times. Policies such as those which allow the
proliferation of two-stroke and diesel vehicles are responsible, says CSE
Date: 6th October '98
Remarks of social activist Anna Hazare, fresh out the jail after
a reduced sentence for failing to prove charges of corruption against Maharashtra social
welfare minister Babanrao Gholap. He was speaking at public lecture entitled Environment
and Corruption at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, to mark the conclusion of the National Conference on Potential of Water Harvesting:
Traditions, Policies and Social Mobilisation organised by the Centre for Science and
Environment (CSE)
Date: 6th October '98
"Not only water, but every issue in India should be everybody’s
business," said Digvijay Singh, chief minister, Madhya Pradesh in his valedictory
lecture in the National Conference on the Potential of
Water Harvesting, organised by the Centre for Science and Environment in New Delhi on
October 5
Date: 5th October '98
Water professionals demand national water policy to focus on promotion of water
harvesting and protection of water bodies in different ecological regions to meet the
country’s growing demand for water in a sustainable way. The experts stressed on the
need for involving the civil society in framing country’s water policy.
Date: 4th October '98
Water led the way to the formation of cities, the misuse of it can undo the best
of them as well. Cities will exhaust their own future if they do not capture water where
it falls. So warn the experts in the water sector who have come to the capital to
participate in the CSE Conference on Potential of Water
Harvesting Systems.
Date: 3rd October '98
Five outstanding rural rainwater harvesters were felicitated by the Honourable
President of India Shri K R Narayanan today for their significant contribution in
preserving and developing water harvesting systems to secure water where there is none.
Date: 29th September '98
Conference on the Potential of Water Harveswting
The three-day conference on the potential of water harvesting will be organised
by the Centre for Science and Environment from October 3 to 5, 1998 at the India Habitat
Centre, New Delhi. The conference will be inaugurated by the Honourable President of
India, Shri K R Narayanan, at a special inaugural session in Vigyan Bhavan (Hall No 5) at
9.45 am on October 3.
Date: 11th September '98
Civil Society Expresses Solidarity with Anna Hazare
A spectrum of the NGO (Non-governmental Organisation) community and members of civil
society in Delhi join Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in expressing strong
indignation over the unfortunate turn of events that led to the jail sentence of Anna
Hazare.
Date: 17th July '98
CSE Website wins Best of Asia-Pacific Web Award
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) Website was awarded the Best of Asia
Pacific Web Award for 1998 in the Nature and Environment category.
Date: 9th July '98
MINISTER ANNOUNCES FORMATION OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE
Addressing the CSE National Conference on Health and Environment, Environment Minister
Suresh Prabhu announced the formation of a Committee on Health and Environment, and
another inter-ministerial coordination committee of Secretaries.
Date: 8th July '98
DID YOU REMEMBER TO TAKE YOUR DOES OF PESTICIDES TODAY?
The Green Revolution gave us food security - and convulsions, visual defects,
Parkinson's Syndrome, headaches, sleep disturbances, poor attention spans.... The second
day of the National Conference on Health and Environment discussed the effect of
environmental toxins and air pollution on the human body.
Date: 7th July '98
EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE, EVERY DROP YOU DRINK .... COULD BE KILLING YOU
"We have wrongly assumed that business, trade and technology are our
slaves," the Vice President of India, Krishan Kant, said while inaugurating a
three day National Conference on Health and Environment organised by the Centre for
Science and Environment in New Delhi.
Date: 6th July '98
FIRST EVER NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT
IN INDIA
The National Conference on Health and Environment being held by the CSE (7-9 July, 98)
has the specific purpose of making citizens aware of the truly dangerous condition of our
environment today, whether we live in big cities or small towns, or indeed in rural areas,
and the impact of this on our health.
Date: 29th June '98
ENRAGED CITIZENS' MISSIVE TO THE Lt.GOVERNOR
The recent statement made by the Lt Governor of Delhi, Shri Vijay Kapoor, that
"pollution in Delhi is a very overstated problem" has created a furore amongst
the citizens of Delhi. In an open letter to the Lt Governor a group of environmentalists,
doctors, artists, academics, theatre and media personalities have demanded that Shri
Kapoor must retract his irresponsible statement
Date: 17th June '98
JUST WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE SAYING, HEALTH MINISTER?
The recent statement made by Dr Harsh Vardhan, that there is no evidence to link
pollution to heart and lung diseases, is either made from ignorance, or from a desire to
hide his government’s incapacity to deal with the air pollution problem, the Centre
for Science and Environment said in a letter to Delhi’s health Minister
Date: 06th June '98
CSE Statement on Petrol Price Hike: Pricing to kill
The ever widening gap between prices of petrol and diesel will encourage the use of
diesel, and result in killing thousands more due to air pollution, says the Centre for
Science and Environment
CSE's Press Releases
during the GEF Assembly (March 28 - April 3, 1998)
- Date: 01st April '98
Integrate local with global, NGOs tell GEF
- Date: 01st April '98
No scope for strategy change, says World Bank official
- Date: 02nd April '98
Educate every MLA and MP to crack the environmental degradation problem, says
Kiran Bedi
- Date: 03rd April '98
"GEF activities in biodiversity serving nothern country interests"
Date: 18th Feb '98
Won’t the Indian government ever learn how to save desi basmati from getting
stolen?
Date: 13th Feb '98
UNDP to fund Green Rating of industry
The Government of India (GOI) and UNDP have signed the first sub-programme under the
UNDP Environment Programme Support document which was signed in September 1997. Green
Rating of Indian industry, the project to be implemented by the Centre for Science and
Environment (CSE), will focus on analysis of industry’s environmental performance.
Date: 10th Feb '98
The Election Commission today refused to comment on allegations that the Delhi
government had scrapped their ban on old vehicles as a political move, in order not to
compromise votes in the forthcoming elections.
Date: 28th January '98
The Delhi government seems to be backtracking on its decision to ban 15 year old
commercial vehicles in Delhi by March 1998 to clean up Delhi’s air according to the
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