Priyadarshini Karve – Director, Samuchit Enviro Tech
Priyadarshini Karve is Managing Director, Samuchit Enviro Tech. While working with Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) she invented a …
T. L. Sankar – Hon. Visiting Professor, Administrative Staff College
T L Sankar served as Principal, Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Hyderabad for over seven years and continues to be Honorary …
Nikolaus Supersberger – Deputy Director, Indo-German Energy Programme, GiZ
Nikolaus Supersberger is Deputy Director, Indo-German Energy Programme with GiZ. Having began his career at the German think-tank Wuppertal …
Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2014 (video)
Usha Ramachandra – Professor and Energy Area Chairperson, Administrative Staff College
Usha Ramachandra, Professor and Area Chairperson of Energy Area, ASCI, is Doctorate in Economics from Central University, Hyderabad. She joined …
AAD2024: Conversation with KJ Ramesh on the impacts and science of El Nino
Listen to former director general of India Meteorological Department speak on various aspects of ENSO’s warm phase
Ajay Shankar, member secretary of National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council, speaks on rural electrification and the future of renewables in providing decentralised electricity
Ajay Shankar is the Member Secretary, National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council. He retired as Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy &…
Jyoti Dar – Director, Kuvam Energy
As the founder director of Kuvam Energy Pvt. Ltd, Jyoti Dar has spent the past five years to reduce India’s dependence on coal and fossil …
Atma Ram Shukla – President, Biogas Forum of India
Atma Ram Shukla superannuated as Advisor (Bio-energy) in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in September, 2011 after working for the …
Can polluting brick kilns be cleaned up?
India is world's second largest producer of bricks, but the environmental cost of producing cheap bricks is huge
Black carbon's impact on ecosystems
It is known to alter melt cycle of glaciers and interfere with rainfall patterns
Does short-lived black carbon have long-term climate impact?
Comparing global warming potential of CO2 and black carbon has its limitations
Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2024 begins: CSE, DTE release 2024 State of India’s Environment report
2023-24 was a year of ‘polycrisis’, says Sunita Narain at opening ceremony
Cook stoves: the politics and the quest for solutions
What should be the approach to deal with local health impacts of cooking fuels that would also inform India's national and global policy?
Short-lived pollutants: the other part of climate agenda
CO2 mitigation has to be conjoined with methane and black carbon mitigation to keep temperature rise below 2°C
Cause of worry for developing nations
Focus on black carbon may lead to developed nations shifting burden of tackling climate change to the less affluent
Ranjit Bharvirkar – Advisor, Regulatory Assistance Project
Ranjit Bharvirkar is an independent expert working as an advisor with the Regulatory Assistance Project since 2013. He has conducted research and …
India identifying, defining forests wrongly, say experts at Anil Agarwal Dialogue
The urgent agenda today is to reinvent forest management for the future; so that India can build a wood-based future, but still protect the …
CSE’s annual media conclave, the Anil Agarwal Dialogue, to be held from March 1-4
Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, will release the State of India’s Environment 2022 report at …
‘Brick kiln workers in India underpaid and exploited’
India employs double the number of labourers than China, yet produces one-fifth of China’s annual brick production of 1 trillion
Brick kilns destroying fertile top soil
65 per cent of bricks produced in India are manufactured in the Gangetic plains, which have one of the world’s most fertile alluvial soils
Brick kilns major source of air pollution in South Asia
Contribute 10% to the total air pollution in south Delhi, 11% in Patna, 30% in Dhaka
Almost half of world’s population exposed to indoor air pollution
Experts highlight the hazards of indoor air pollution; call for urgent shift to clean cooking fuel
‘India should lead way in clean cook stoves’
Experts draw attention to high child mortality and morbidity among women and children because of inefficient cook stoves
Euro V standard has failed to curb pollutants: experts
Push for Euro VI as the new emissions standard across EU; recommend improvising Bharat II standard for India