Reports and Documents

The Saffolalife Study 2013, India’s largest study on risk factors precipitating heart disease, found that more than 70% of 1.86 lakh urban Indian respondents are at cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

India’s largest study on risk factors precipitating heart disease conducted by Saffola found that more than 70% of 1.86 lakh urban Indian respondents are at cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

On Friday the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is expected to release the first of four volumes of its fifth comprehensive assessment of scientific knowledge on climate change, known as AR5.

This is the press release on release of the book "Good News Bad News: Clearing the air in Indian cities" published by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). This bird’s eye assessment of the cities of India & how they fare on parameters such as air quality, public transport, walkability, parking policies and fiscal initiatives was released in New Delhi by Harish Salve, senior advocate of Supreme Court of India and the Amicus Curiae on environmental cases.

The expert committee for Evolving a Composite Development Index of States—headed by Raghuram G Rajan, governor of the Reserve Bank of India and the former Chief Economic Advisor submitted this report to the government. It recommends a new mechanism for allocation on the basis of composite development index for states. According to this, Odisha and Bihar are the least developed states.

Minutes of the Meeting of the Expert Group on guidelines for making available quality and safe food in schools. It was decided to constitute the Working Group from the members of the Expert Group to review the draft guidelines under the chairpersonship of Dr. Sunita Narain.

The key objective of Odisha Urban Parking Policy 2013 is to develop parking places and organise parking activities for all types of modes of transport .It aims to discourage daily usage of personalized motorized vehicles and promote mass transportation and use of non-motorized transport system. Read the draft of this policy.

CSE is organising a unique event to celebrate positive action on sustainable mobility in Indian cities. We are looking forward to engage in dialogue with changemakers in different cities of India who have made a difference to mobility and air quality related concerns.

This report provides recommendations on the renewable energy policy framework for Bihar and was submitted to the Minister of Energy, Government of Bihar. Bihar does not have enough fossil fuel resources to generate electricity for its future needs. The centralised model of energy has also failed to deliver.

Coal India Limited is misleading shareholders by concealing information on the level of its extractable reserves, which could be exhausted in 17 years.