This issue focuses on Adivasi Rights, Climate Change Updates and relevant Policy Developments, Environmental Degradation and Pollution, People’s Participation in Conservation, Environmental Jurisprudence, Distributed Renewable energy, Disastrous Urban Expansion and Conserving Water Commons.
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‘ESG Webinar Series on Tackling Air Pollution’ is a 4-part webinar series organised by ESG which will address pertinent questions relating to the deteriorating air quality in India and other places.
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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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The report of the workshop series organised by ESG and Art By Children initiative of Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022.
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Report of the first webinar in ESG Webinar Series on Tackling Air Pollution focussed on Role of Science, Public Health and Governance.
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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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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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Featured Book Talk: “Seed Activism” by Karine E Peschard On 13th December, 2012, ESG held a book talk to launch
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ESG is happy to launch the next workshop for Young climateers on October 6th,7th and 8th.The experiential workshop will introduce children to climate change, its relationship with water, waste, pollution, soil etc. and conclude with a field trip to observe and immerse in nature. Do enroll your child for this exciting workshop which will be conducted through games, activities, interaction and immersion.
Read MoreESG projects and campaigns cover a wide range of issues, a common theme across which is that of encouraging community
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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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Good research-based approaches to skill building are the need of the hour in order to identify the right approaches in building a broad spectrum of jobs. Anticipating Skill Needs for Green Jobs is a study that offers practical guidance on building employment opportunities and developing short term job oriented skill courses. From the experiences of the pandemic it has been learned that it is certainly more beneficial for society overall to provide a range of skill training – from farm-based activities to non-farm skills – and speaking to the needs of the region, even at the very local levels. It is such an approach of care that will help youth in making wise choices to secure their futures, in ensuring economic security of their households and to look to the future with dignity and confidence.
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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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‘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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India’s environmental jurisprudence has been torn between the competing demands of prioritising environmental protection and securing economic progress. While there are several judgements that speak to the need for balancing development with environmental priorities, it is not necessarily an exercise that can be easily rationalised. There is overwhelming evidence in the pollution flowing in every river and lake across the country, in the extensive degradation across the Western Ghats and the Himalayas – resulting in catastrophic impacts on human settlements, in the breakdown of our cities every time it rains or when there is an unrelenting heat wave, and in commons that are extensively encroached, diverted and polluted, that the state of India’s environment is precariously hinged. The damaging consequences of such extensive degradation are irreversible and will seriously impede the country’s socio-economic progress.
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There has been systematic dilution of India’s forest and biodiversity protection laws for several years now. But the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change now proposes to fundamentally change the essential characteristic of India’s environmental jurisprudence with fundamental changes that it proposes to India’s umbrella environmental law, the Environment Protection Act, 1986, and also the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 and Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991.
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The most important aspect of a sustainable house or infrastructure is to create one that consumes less energy in both its production and operation. As human civilization settles down comfortably into a lifestyle of energy and product consumption, we lead ourselves to believe that we can become green by just shifting the source of energy generation, unwilling to fathom that unnecessary product and process creation is the underlying issue. Energy reduction and lifestyle changes can pave the way for true sustainability.
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For over two decades, ESG has focussed on emerging urban environmental and socio-economic challenges and worked with multiple communities, government agencies, academia, media, etc. in attending to these issues and conflicts.
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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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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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