Centre for Science and Environment [CSE] is an independent, public interest organisation which aims to increase public awareness on science, technology, environment and development. The Centre was started in 1980.

For more than two decades, CSE has been creating awareness about the environmental challenges facing our nation. Searching for solutions that people and communities can implement themselves. Challenging India to confront its problems. Inspiring it to take action. Pushing the government to create frameworks for people and communities to act on their own.

Today, Centre for Science and Environment is considered one of India's leading environmental NGOs specialising in sustainable natural resource management. Its strategy of knowledge-based activism has won it wide respect and admiration for its quality of campaigns, research and publications. CSE promotes solutions for India's numerous environmental threats – of ‘ecological poverty' and extensive land degradation on one hand, and rapidly growing toxic degradation of uncontrolled industrialisation and economic growth on the other.

CSE's core values of

respect for science;
equity for all;
respect for nature's diversity;
respect for traditional knowledge;
public participation; and
environmental sustainability,
have inspired citizens and communities to take action and find sustainable solutions.

CSE's role is to help India create a sustainable society even in the worst of circumstances, marked by poverty, illiteracy, inequality, and population growth.

CSE's organisational culture is built around an information-knowledge-wisdom chain that helps make people aware of the emerging problems and helps in building constituencies. CSE identifies solutions [intellectual leadership] and then pushes for change through lobbying with politicians and bureaucrats. CSE's educational and training programmes are knowledge investments that seek to build capacities of managers and future leaders.

The Centre's efforts are built around five broad activities:

Communication for Awareness
Research and Advocacy
Education and Training
Documentation
Pollution Monitoring

Links and Resources

Air Pollution

Centre for Science and Environment CSE Bangalore Office