-Hindustan Times New Delhi: Dengue figures continued to spiral upwards with the total number of cases nearing the 10,000 mark. More than 1,800 cases were reported in the past five days, taking the total number of cases so far this year to 9,438. Of the 1,832 fresh cases, 1,076 are from Delhi, says data released by the municipal corporations on Thursday. The cut-off date in the latest statistics is October 8. There had...
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Indian NGO criticises U.S. climate action plans -Vidya Venkat
-The Hindu In the run-up to the U.N. climate summit in Paris in December, Indian Environmental NGO, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), released a report which came down heavily on the U.S. — the second largest emitter of CO2 globally — for not doing enough about climate change, while preaching to other countries, including India, to “act.” In its report ‘Captain America U.S. climate goals: a reckoning,’ the CSE concluded that...
More »Dear Government, We're Choking. Want To Help? -IP Bajpai
-NDTV Why is it that every time anything has to be done about pollution in our cities or in fact large Environmental issues, elected governments do very little and it needs the Supreme Court (or other courts) to intervene? Between 1998 and 2001 the Supreme Court issued orders on pollution in Delhi NINETEEN times. On Monday, they intervened again and asked why tolls cannot be imposed on trucks passing through Delhi to...
More »Study reveals US doublespeak on emission cuts -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: America has for long sought to shift the greater onus of battling climate change on the developing world. But a new study seeks to remind the richest nation on the planet to first practice what it preaches. Indian think tank, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), has tried to bring the focus back on the consumption-fuelled lifestyle of the developed world, specifically the US, in...
More »Greenpeace still in government’s NGO list despite row
The Times of India NEW DELHI: Even as Greenpeace India faces heat from the home ministry over FCRA issues, the Environment ministry has ensured it remains in the government's directory of Environmental NGOs. The directory, comprising around 2,300 Environmental NGOs including Greenpeace, was released by Environment and forest minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday. The directory was released ahead of the government's plan to bring out performance-based rating of NGOs working in the field...
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