Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi

Ready to dive into sustainable water practices? Don't miss out on our integrated training on Lake Rejuvenation and Groundwater Management in Urban Areas! 🏞️ Get hands-on experience and learn from the best in the field👇 https://lnkd.in/g4NKUwnP Vivek S. Susmita Sengupta Swati Bhatia Dr. Mehak Puri Pradeep Kumar Mishra Subrata Chakraborty Dr. Sumita Singhal Anurag Naidu FARAZ AHMAD Jyoti Prasad Dadhich Harsh Yadava

Join Our Residential Training on Carbon Accounting, Auditing & Trading    📅 Dates: February 11–14, 2025   📍 Location: Anil Agrawal Environment Training Institute This 4-day intensive training by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) equips professionals with essential skills to master carbon accounting, auditing, and trading.  Here what Arun Kumar Kirtania says about his experience with the training. Why Attend?   ✅ Learn international standards & best practices for GHG management   ✅ Gain hands-on experience in carbon accounting & auditing   ✅ Understand carbon markets (compliance & voluntary)   ✅ Explore financing industrial decarbonization and its challenges  🎯 Who Should Attend?  🔹 Industrial professionals   🔹 Aspiring carbon auditors & consultants   🔹 Sustainability researchers   🔹 Government & NGO decision-makers  🎓 Certification on Completion   Course Fee: ₹28,000 (includes training, accommodation, food & travel from/to Delhi)   Waived off for relevant government officials Registration link and more details: https://lnkd.in/gbrhkji9 📩 Course Coordinator: Manas Agrawal   ✉️ Email: [email protected]   Seats are limited! Reserve yours now to drive sustainability goals and build a low-carbon future. 🌟

Highlights from CSE's Decentralized Renewable Energy Workshop Our Renewable Energy (RE) team successfully conducted a 3-day immersive programme focused on energy access, livelihood generation, and community-centric clean energy development. With 45+ practitioners participating, the workshop combined classroom sessions and hands-on group activities where participants tackled real-world challenges. What made it special? ✅ Participants developed practical DRE policy solutions. ✅ Teams negotiated between multiple stakeholders to design contextually relevant interventions. ✅ They built strategies backed by realistic energy demand assessments, technology-based resource potential, and livelihood integration components. ✅ The grand finale was a detailed, affordable financial model evaluated by faculty experts. A huge thank you to all participants for their enthusiasm and commitment to advancing clean energy for equitable development. Together, we’re shaping sustainable futures! BAIF Development Research Foundation | Vasudha Foundation India | WRI India | Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra (NBJK) | Transform Rural India | CES CAREs (Customized Applications for Rural Economies) | Himachal Pradesh Energy Development Agency | © Life Education and Development Support | Network for Enterprise Enhancement and Development Support Binit Das | Arvind Poswal | Nivit Yadav | Subhrajit Goswami |

Happening Tomorrow! 🚨CSE in collaboration with Department of Urban Development of Uttar Pradesh, is all set to host a training on “Strengthening FSSM in Uttar Pradesh” The training is expected to equip the participants with: 👉Mastering common operations and maintenance (O&M) tasks for FSTPs and co-treatment plants 👉Implementing sustainable O&M practices 👉Comprehensive understanding of state-developed O&M Standard Operating Procedures 👉Prioritising safety during O&M activities We will be releasing The SOP for Operations and Maintenance of FSTPs and Co-Treatment Plants of Uttar Pradesh, developed by CSE. 🔗Know more: https://lnkd.in/g2WD4thf Harsh Yadava Subrata Chakraborty Alka Naneria Hari Prakash Haihyvanshi Er.Manish Mishra Dr. Sumita Singhal Jyoti Prasad DadhichFARAZ AHMAD Susmita Sengupta Swati Bhatia Dr. Mehak Puri Vivek S. Pradeep Kumar Mishra

Join the Celebration! The Changemakers' Conclave - Celebrating Swachh Bharat Mission The conclave celebrates the remarkable individuals and organizations who are driving positive change through the Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0. Since 2021, CSE has partnered with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs to provide training to over 450 urban local bodies and 39 NGOs at our AAETI. Many have successfully implemented their learnings, creating a tangible impact on solid waste management and other key areas. An assembly of representatives from 100 urban local bodies that have triggered transformation in India’s cities. At the conclave, we'll hear their stories, celebrate their achievements, and reaffirm our commitment to a cleaner, healthier India. Keynote speakers: Pisupati Balakrishna | Sunita Narain | Angela Lusigi | @Roopa Mishra Know more: https://lnkd.in/ghsYPnFa Watch the morning session: https://lnkd.in/g7WA8Qqt Afternoon session: https://lnkd.in/gQJWF3PA Atin Biswas Siddharth Ghanshyam Singh MOU SENGUPTA Kaifee Jawed Kuldeep Choudhary Dr. Tribhuwan Singh Bisht Shrotik Bose Aniket Chandra Minakshi S.

Online Meeting of the Pan-Africa Network of Regulators for Clean Air Solutions! We're bringing together key regulators from 17 African countries to foster knowledge-sharing, cross-learning and South-South experience sharing on emerging good practices: https://lnkd.in/gYiVvKKW Date: December 18, 2024 (Wednesday) and December 23, 2024 (Monday) Time: 5 pm to 7 pm India time/2.30 am to 4.30 pm East Africa time/11.30 am and 12.30 pm to 1.30 pm and 2.30 pm West Africa time Anumita Roychowdhury | Vivek Chattopadhyaya | Sayan Roy | Shambhavi Shukla | Sharanjeet Kaur | Kalyani Tembhe | Shubham Srivastava | Richa Pandey | Caleb Philip | Mrinal Tripathi | Moushumi Mohanty

Canada sets modest NDC target: 45-50% emissions cut by 2035, while fossil fuel production continues. Read more about the country's future investments and strategies to achieve its NDCs in this article by Rudrath Avinashi and Trishant Dev. https://lnkd.in/gv8E4ACx

Our Water programme at CSE has rolled out a specialized 5-day training for Ladakh officials from the Department of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj Department. 35 officials from the second batch will undergo comprehensive training on toilets, solid waste management and greywater management in rural areas. Day 1 was a huge success, with sessions on Ladakhi toilet modifications and the feasibility of soak pits and septic tanks. Susmita Sengupta Swati Bhatia Pradeep Kumar Mishra Dr. Mehak Puri Vivek S. Subrata Chakraborty Dr. Sumita Singhal FARAZ AHMAD Jyoti Prasad Dadhich Umra Anees

💫 CSE's Climate Change Programme in 2024: A hectic year in review 💫 📖 Our report on the EU CBAM filled a gap by laying out a Global South response to the policy: https://lnkd.in/g5S_CvEM 📖 Our NCQG position paper provided detailed position mapping of country blocs, and laid out principles for a successful outcome: https://lnkd.in/gqpvbGmK 📖 Our report on Article 2.1c of the Paris Agreement attempts to decode its interpretations within UNFCCC and raises questions for further consideration: https://lnkd.in/gXg_kXfc 📖 Further we partnered with ODI Global for a workshop on Article 2.1c, that yielded fruitful discussions: https://lnkd.in/gWsRW_Nw 📖 Our scoping report on voluntary carbon markets (VCM) in Africa lays the ground for further inquiry; building on our pioneering work for India in last year's 'Discredited' report: https://lnkd.in/gQEBYyfu 📖 Our soon-to-be-launched VCM database for India (today the largest source of credits in the global VCM) - aims to promote transparency that is sorely needed 📖 Our paper on Equitable Fossil Fuel Phaseout lays out a roadmap for who should lead the way, according to various social and economic criteria: https://lnkd.in/gsTHTtQb Additionally: ➡️ Our presence at SB60 in Bonn and COP29 Azerbaijan in Baku saw deep engagement with negotiators and civil society within the UNFCCC. We moderated a UNFCCC dialogue on Article 2.1c; spoke at and moderated side events; and built pressure for key priorities for the Global South. ➡️ Our team has been in London, New York, and Nairobi this year engaging on wide-ranging issues beyond the UNFCCC, such as trade, global financial systems reform, fossil fuel phaseout, and carbon markets.  ➡️ We conducted an online training programme on climate finance for 113 participants from 13 countries.  ➡️ We wrote 60+ articles and filmed 10+ videos for Down To Earth (DTE) disseminating our research and advocacy. ➡️ Our COP29 articles for DTE saw 1.1 million page views and videos saw 1.75 million views (this includes efforts from DTE colleagues as well). ➡️ And ofcourse media engagements, panels, lectures, webinars, presentations continue - too many to count - helping us disseminate our work further.  ➡️ In a personal thrill for me, Amitav Ghosh tweeted my opinion piece and that's made my year 😊 https://lnkd.in/gBNF_g6f Our team has thought critically, reflected deeply, had wonderful conversations with so many climate friends and learned so much. Times are tough for multilateral climate policy, but making sense of it all is the role that organisations like CSE play, and we're ready for 2025 (after a long winter break!). Sunita Narain Trishant Dev Sehr Raheja Upamanyu Das Rudrath Avinashi (Special mention to former colleagues for their great work this year - Fizza Tamanna) Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi

What is India's potential of Reusing Treated Wastewater Yesterday, CSE in collaboration with Namami Gange organised an impactful national workshop! 🌍 Experts and representatives from seven Indian states and top national institutions came together to discuss the current state of wastewater management in the country. Let's hear what the experts have to say! 🎤 https://lnkd.in/gDXD-ZZx Sunita Narain Ashok Natarajan Umra Anees Subrata Chakraborty FARAZ AHMAD Dr. Sumita Singhal Jyoti Prasad Dadhich Susmita Sengupta Swati Bhatia