Environment Justice Matters Vol. 4 Issue 01
EJM Vol. 4 Issue 01 focuses on the decline of urban greenery in Bengaluru, environmental impacts, plastic ban and renewable energy.
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Environment Justice Matters Vol. 3 Issue 15
The 2022 year end issue of Environment Justice Matters
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An Archive of K. P. Sasi’s Creativity and Passion for Justice
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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EJ Matters Vol 3. Issue 14
Featured Book Talk: “Seed Activism” by Karine E Peschard On 13th December, 2012, ESG held a book talk to launch
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EJ Matters Vol 3. Issue 13 : Climate Change and the 27th Conference of UNFCCC Parties (COP27) and more
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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EJ Matters Vol 3. Issue 12 : Regressive Amendments Proposed To Environmental Laws Of India Resisted
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 is that all of the proposed Bills must be withdrawn immediately.
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Greed Vs Green
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.”
Urban Flooding
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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How Caste and Class Divisions Caused Bengaluru’s Flooding
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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Saving Bengaluru from its absurdities
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.
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ESG is in its 25th Year!
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
‘ESG Imaginaries to Make Cities Work’ is a webinar series co-organised by ESG in collaboration with Habitat Forum – INHAF
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EJ Matters Vol 3. Issue 10
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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MoEF&CC must stop destroying India’s progressive environment, forest and biodiversity protection jurisprudence
At a time when the United Nations General Assembly has finally passed a resolution making Right to Clean and Healthy Environment a Human Right, Indian Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change is doing everything to destroy India’s progressive environmental jurisprudence.
We invite you to endorse a statement demanding Indian Government must step back from its proposals to comprehensively dilute India’s and devastate India’s environmental laws. And it must stop yielding to corporate pressures and instead defend our Constitutional rights over our health, environment and our futures.
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Week 2 of ESG Imaginaries to Make Cities Work: Challenges of Securing Urban Commons
ESG has worked with this problematique of the commons and demonstrated how securing them can be a win-win for all. Working with communities to resist privatisation of commons, such as lakes, and then asking for a policy to protect them with Public Trust Doctrine and the principle of intergenerational equity as the basis, has resulted in path breaking outcomes – rehabilitation of lakes as inclusive commons and as sacred spaces that deserve community and statutory protection to advance ecological and water security.
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Environment Justice Matters_ Vol3. Issue 8
The Yale Centre for Environmental Law and Policy and Columbia University’s Earth Institute issued the 2022 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) report recently. It is projected as a “data-driven summary of the state of sustainability around the world” and uses “40 performance indicators across 11 issue categories” to rank “180 countries on climate change performance, environmental health, and ecosystem vitality”. India has been ranked at the bottom of this list, scoring merely 18.9 points of a possible 100.
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Environment Justice Matters| Environment Day | Vol3. Issue 7
At Environment Support Group(ESG), every day is Environment Day. And it has been the case for us ever since the organisation was founded, 25 years ago. Yes, it is the 25th year of this initiative and we hope we are doing our bit to be grateful for the incredible opportunity of being a part of this living planet.
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ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಕೆರೆಗಳ, ಕಾಲುವೆಗಳ ಮತ್ತು ಸಾಮೂಹಿಕ ನೀರಿನ ನೆಲೆಗಳ ವಿಕೇಂದ್ರೀಕೃತ, ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕವಾಗಿ ಒಳಗೊಳ್ಳುವ ಮತ್ತು ಪರಿಸರ ವಿವೇಕದ ರಕ್ಷಣೆ ಮತ್ತು ಪುನರ್ವಸತಿ
2022 ರ ಮೇ 17 ರಂದು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ರಾಜ್ಯ ಕಾನೂನು ಸೇವೆಗಳ ಪ್ರಾಧಿಕಾರದ ಸಹಯೋಗದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಎನ್ವಿರಾನ್ಮೆಂಟ್ ಸಪೋರ್ಟ್ ಗ್ರೂಪ್ (ESG) ಆಯೋಜಿಸಿದ “ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಕೆರೆಗಳು, ಕಾಲುವೆಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ನೀರಿನ ಕಾಮನ್ಸ್ ಗಳ ವಿಕೇಂದ್ರೀಕೃತ, ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕವಾಗಿ ಒಳಗೊಳ್ಳುವ ಮತ್ತು ಪರಿಸರ ವಿವೇಕದ ರಕ್ಷಣೆ ಮತ್ತು ಪುನರ್ವಸತಿ” ಕುರಿತು ವಿಚಾರ ಸಂಕಿರಣವು ಎಷ್ಟು ದೂರವನ್ನು ನಿರ್ಣಯಿಸಲು ಒಂದು ಅವಕಾಶವಾಗಿದೆ. ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಉಚ್ಚ ನ್ಯಾಯಾಲಯದ 2012 ರ ನಿರ್ದೇಶನದ ಬೆಳಕಿನಲ್ಲಿ ನಾವು ರಾಜ್ಯಾದ್ಯಂತ ಸಮುದಾಯಗಳಿಗೆ ನೀರು, ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ-ಆರ್ಥಿಕ ಮತ್ತು ಪರಿಸರ ಭದ್ರತೆಗಳನ್ನು ವಿಸ್ತರಿಸುವಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಯಾಣಿಸಿದ್ದೇವೆ. ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಹೈಕೋರ್ಟ್ ಮತ್ತು ಕಾನೂನು ಸೇವಾ ಪ್ರಾಧಿಕಾರದ ನ್ಯಾಯಾಧೀಶರು, ಸರ್ಕಾರದ ಹಿರಿಯ ಪ್ರತಿನಿಧಿಗಳು, ತಜ್ಞರು ಮತ್ತು ಸಮುದಾಯದ ಮುಖಂಡರು ವಿಚಾರ ಸಂಕಿರಣವನ್ನು ಉದ್ದೇಶಿಸಿ ಮಾತನಾಡಲಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
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Environment Justice Matters Vol 3. Issue. 6 | Large Gaps In Bengaluru’s Urban Planning Process & More
The IPCC sixth assessment report released early April notes that climate misinformation can jeopardise climate action and weaken public demand for mitigation and adaptation measures. The report acknowledges the role of misinformation in fuelling polarisation, saying, “Together with the proliferation of suspicions of “fake news” and “post-truth”, some traditional and social media contents have fuelled polarisation and partisan divides on climate change in many countries.”
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Pavagada solar plant shines, but at what cost?
Alternative sources of energy like solar is the way ahead but going forward in this realm requires a need to understand that mega power plants spanning thousands of acres, commissioned by converting habitable lands may not be the right way to do it. Solar plants can coexist with farming, animal rearing and other rural livelihoods. It just needs more dialogue and local people’s participation to suit the local landscapes.
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Environment Justice Matters- Vol3. Issue 5 | It’s a Last-Minute Gift that Makes a Difference
In the final hours of the 2021-22 Financial Year, we invite you to support ESG’s critical efforts advancing environmental justice.
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Subramanyapura Lake Conservation Committee
ESG invited representatives from neighbourhoods and apartments located within the Subramanyapura Lake watershed for a planning meeting to create the Subramanyapura Lake Protection Committee, on 31st March 2022. This was for ensuring the protection of the lake for health and ecological benefits.
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Environment Justice Matters- Vol3. Issue 4 | Impacts of the War, Amazon rainforest approaching a tipping point
The war is also a reminder for the urgent need for stringent international control necessary in the use of thermobaric, cluster and nuclear weapons, owing to the brutality and highest dangers arising from the use of these inhuman tools of mass destruction.
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Environment Justice Matters- Vol3. Issue 3 | Sidestepping Climate Change Accord Commitments in support of Mega projects |Amulya K. N. Reddy
A key strategy promoted to tackle climate change, especially from the North, is to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and shift to renewables. Which, as Thea Riofrancos argues in Foreign Policy, is fraught with serious inconsistencies even if this involves shifting the mining of minerals critical to the renewable energy transition to the Global North. ”Global north onshoring does not repair the forms of environmental harm disproportionally meted out in the global south”, he argues. Besides, this would create new problems which primarily affect oppressed populations within affluent countries.
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