World Environment Day : Tackling Plastic Pollution – CSE
Date Jun 3, 2023, 12:00 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.
What is the world doing to end plastic pollution? Join our World Environment Day special media Briefing with the CSE team who are participating in the Paris meeting of the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution.
A WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY SPECIAL TACKLING PLASTIC POLLUTION:
What is the world doing about it? Will the forthcoming Paris meeting of the UN’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution give us a roadmap? Join us for a briefing with the CSE team of experts which is participating in the negotiations.
