Environmental, Social Justice & Governance Initiatives
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This issue focusses on biodiversity and forest cover loss, threat to water commons, plastic pollution, cons of renewables and coastal maldevelopment.
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Report on ESG Program for University of Washington at Seattle
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This issue focuses on Biodiversity, Conservation, Climate Change, Threatened Commons, Adivasi Rights, Climate Change, Urban and Infrastructures Maldevelopment, and Judicial Interventions for Sustainable Development.
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This issues focusses on ecologically sensitive threatened regions, regulatory collapse, reckless urbanisation, plastic and air pollution and climate change.
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Appeal to Karnataka Chief Minister to issue Ordinance to Save Farmers and Dalits impacted by SK Layout from Atrocious Injustice. Please sign this petition within the next 24 hours urging Chief Minister Mr. Bommai to issue the ordinance by the end of the week when his term ends.
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This issue focuses on environmental jurisprudence, issues with renewable solutions, encroachment of commons, mitigation for climate change impacts, mining, GMOs and thriving biodiversity.
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This issue focuses on threats to blue-green commons such as lakes, rivers, parks and more, environmental impact of development, speculations about clean energy and carbon emissions.
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Read the report of a workshop ESG organised to introspect how Bengaluru metropolis’ blue green commons can be reclaimed & transformed into healthy, sylvan, inclusive and accessible spaces.
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ESG invites you to a public workshop on:
“Reclaim and Turn Inclusive Bengaluru and its Blue-Green Commons” on Saturday, 4th February, 2023 at SCM House, 2nd Cross Road, CSI Compound, Mission Road, Sampangi Rama Nagar, Bengaluru, 01:30 pm to 07:00 pm.
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EJM Vol. 4 Issue 01 focuses on the decline of urban greenery in Bengaluru, environmental impacts, plastic ban and renewable energy.
Read moreThe 2022 year end issue of Environment Justice Matters
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We present to you a repertoire of K.P. Sasi’s Feature Films, Documentaries, Songs and other creative work here. We will update this page as we find more of his work.
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Featured Book Talk: “Seed Activism” by Karine E Peschard On 13th December, 2012, ESG held a book talk to launch
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27th COP of United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change at the seaside resort city of Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt during 6th – 20th November 2022. The main gain, it appears, is the decision to establish and operationalize a ‘loss and damage fund’ which most vulnerable countries have been demanding for decades now
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The unanimous conclusion of legal scholars, environmental and social justice activists, researchers, etc. is that all of the proposed Bills must be withdrawn immediately.
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Leo F. Saldanha, the coordinator of the non-profit Environment Support Group, which has been litigating for lake preservation for over two decades, says,
“All these were natural agricultural wetlands. But while putting up buildings, planners should have ensured space for water to collect and interlinkages to lakes downstream if they overflowed. It was a very simple thing to do, but we ignored it and the citizens are paying the price—as we all experienced in the recent floods.”
Over the past several weeks, Bengaluru has witnessed unprecedented rainfall and severe flooding in several parts of the city, especially the ill-planned newly developed areas such as Bellandur Varthur corridor
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The city needs granular administrative and planning responses to help identify the poor who are forced to live in flood prone areas out of sheer necessity. They cannot be evicted and thrown to the streets.
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The IT Capital of India which was well on the path of becoming the second Silicon Valley of the world couldn’t wait for carefully and inclusively planned Bengaluru.
Read moreIn Focus Campaigns in Focus Waste Management Urban Commons Mobility Climate Change Research in Focus ESG Opinion 25 Years of
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It is the 25th year of Environment Support Group (ESG), as India turns 75! It has been a remarkable journey
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‘ESG Imaginaries to Make Cities Work’ is a webinar series co-organised by ESG in collaboration with Habitat Forum – INHAF
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The @CompCoRe_STS project organised the first (semi-)in person meeting at @HarvardSTS . Leo Saldanha and Bhargavi Rao of ESG are part of this network and writing the India paper as part of a 50 country study on how COVID was managed, an international research effort led by Prof. Sheila Jananoff of Harvard Kennedy School and Prof. Stephen Hiltgartner of Cornell University.
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