Environmental, Social Justice & Governance Initiatives
This year, as the lockdown is extended and cases are on the rise, these communities rely on our support so they can nourish themselves and stay healthy.
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Bengaluru’s insatiable demand for water has not only exhausted its replenishable ground water reserves, and overdrawn its share of the Cauvery, but now plans are afoot to extract water from the far away Sharavathi river. Meanwhile, the acute financialization of land sans rigorous and democratic land use planning has resulted in lakes and other water commons that once sustained the city’s water needs being cannibalised.
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One of the first challenges that climate planning throws up is: how to deal with climate change and its impacts? Is decentralisation of governance the most optimal way out? Public health, sanitation and waste management sectors are intricately linked in not only ensuring all are healthy, but that the toxic impacts of our living are not a burden for future generations.
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As the financial year draws to a close, we invite you to consider donating to ESG generously! Please also take a moment to share this cause with your family, friends and in your networks.
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Communities demand Wetland International’s problematic ‘wise use’ plan for Loktak be withdrawn
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ESG Press Release: 23 February 2021: Bangalore Yet another explosion has taken place in a quarry in Karnataka, this time
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As the world tried to make sense of the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, ESG was invited to participate in a 23 country and 6 continent-wide collaborative study involving 60 researchers led by Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies Sheila Jasanoff of the Harvard Kennedy School and Prof. Stephen Hilgartner of Cornell University in a study on Comparative Covid Response: Crisis, Knowledge, Politics (CompCoRe for short).
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Introduction 2020 was a year that brought unprecedented challenges for the whole world. The COVID pandemic not only upended lives,
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Karnataka High court ruled in Environment Support Group (ESG) lakes case (WP 817/2008) on 11 April 2012 that every district
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By Ashwin Lobo, Research Associate, Environment Support Group
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In collaboration with Program on Science, Technology and Society, Harvard Kennedy School, USA & Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Germany, as part of a project on Governance of Sociotechnical Transformation in this interrogating discussion on Governance and Financial Implications of ‘Smart Cities’.
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The core idea was to develop a critical outlook to the Smart Cities Mission in the overall landscape of governance and planning.
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The Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary is a forest garden and conservation centre in Wayanad Kerala. It is founded on a premise that humans are participant members in nature’s community. The philosophy and practice, as well as world view and politics of the sanctuary arise out of this. As the world gets more and more fragmented and hierarchized, even more driven by capitalistic interests and a technocracy,
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A collaborative Initiative of CFA and ESG .Session 10: 29th October 2020: Rewilding Humans: Nature Education At The Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary
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T Peter, General Secretary of the National Fishworkers Forum (NFF), passed away on 8 October 2020 from COVID-19 related complications
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Leo Saldanha of Environment Support Group speaks on rethinking aspects of our governance system in post-pandemic times.
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ESG’s Leo Saldhana in “Vulnerabilities of Indian Governance: in handling Climate Crisis
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Peter Thomas, the incredible leader of the National Fishworkers Forum – NFF India has lost his battle to COVID. India
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“The lockdown worked like a chemical experiment where hidden injustices were brought to the surface, and we saw the scale of migration which we hadn’t seen during the partition”, activist and writer Arundhati Roy said
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சூழலியலைத் தகர்க்கும் #EIA 2020draft: காணொலிக் கருத்தரங்கு. Posted by M. K. Stalin on Thursday, 3 September 2020 Leo Saldanha shared ESG’s
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Speakers: Vinod Krishnan and Dr.M Ananda Kumar, Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore.
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Date: Thursday the 27th of August 2020 5-6.30 pm IST Speaker Profiles Dr. Sana Huque has a Masters degree
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The first of the series is on Thursday the 20th of August 2020 5-6.30 pm IST
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On behalf of the Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development (CECCSD) at IMPRI, and the Department of Energy and Environment at the TERI School of Advanced Studies (TERI SAS), New Delhi, with India Water Portal as Media Partner,is pleased to have you join us for the IMPRI #WebPolicyTalk on:
Read moreBelow letter is a representation urging postponement of Public Hearing on 18th August 2020 regarding the Peripheral Ring Road (PRR) proposal of Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) being held in blatant disregard for rule of law, judicial directives and in violation of Central, State and Local Government orders relating to COVID-19 pandemic per Disaster Management Act, 2005
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