Climate Mitigation in India : CSE
Date & Time Nov 16, 2023 06:30 PM in India
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi. CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable. The scenario today demands using knowledge to bring about change. In other words, working India’s democracy. This is what we aim to do.The challenge, we see, is two-pronged. On the one hand, millions live within a biomass based subsistence economy, at the margins of survival. The environment is their only natural asset. But a degraded environment means stress on land, water and forest resources for survival. It means increasing destitution and poverty. Here, opportunity to bring about change is enormous.But it will need a commitment to reform – structural reform- in the way we do business with local communities. On the other hand, rapid industrialization is throwing up new problems: growing toxification and a costly disease burden. The answers will be in reinventing the growth model of the Western world for ourselves, so that we can leapfrog technology choices and find new ways of building wealth that will not cost us the earth. Our aim is to raise these concerns, participate in seeking answers and in pushing for answers, transforming these into policy and so practice. We do this through our research and by communicating our understanding through our publications. We call this knowledge-based activism. We hope we will make a difference.
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Updates from Different Sectors: Transport, Industry, Solid Waste Management and Thermal Cooling in Urban Habitats
As the climate crisis worsens, the need for climate mitigation is escalating. India is vulnerable to climate impacts; at the same time, it has been a comparatively low contributor to historical GHG emissions. It is also emerging as a leader in climate action by installing large amounts of renewable power capacity and advancing the adoption of electric vehicles. Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has been working to understand what could be some viable low-carbon pathways of development for India. Detailed sectoral assessments by CSE has shown that solutions to decarbonise do exist for the country. Join our experts in the third webinar in our series of pre-COP28 online briefings, and get a bird’s eye view of a comprehensive decarbonisation action agenda that India and nations of the Global South can adopt and bank on. For sectors as varied as transportation, solid waste management, industry and the built environment (buildings and urban spaces). Do save the date and register.
