AAETIAnil Agarwal Environment Training Institute

About Centre for Science and Environment

People act

‘The people’s e-movement’

1972: The Chipko movement in the

Himalayas

Women, ‘hug’ the trees. Say they will not

AAETI

Women, ‘hug’ the trees. Say they will not

let the woodcutters log their forests.

Gets national attention (Anil Agarwal as

young journalist reports in

newspapers)

Wanted different development paradigm

About CSE

• CSE: set up in 1980.

• Founded by Anil Agarwal:Engineer-journalist.

• Wanted to create an

AAETI

• Wanted to create an institution that could bridge the gap between information and knowledge; between knowledge and public awareness; to influence public policies

Continuum: practice never endsAAETI

InformationCollating Data

(library resources, databases,

KnowledgeResearch and Analyses of

information (newsletters, Down To (library resources, databases, information alerts etc)

information (newsletters, Down To Earth, state of environment books)

Wisdom/ActionResearch for policy advocacy

We at CSE…

• The Centre for Science and Environment

(CSE) is a public interest research and

advocacy organization based in New Delhi.

• Major activities

oResearch

AAETI

oResearch

oAdvocacy

oPolicy Change

oCampaign

oCapacity building

oCommunity Help

CSE: Pushing for change

Policy research &

advocacy

Documenting to

build knowledge

Disseminating

knowledge

Training &

education

Sustainable mobility

& Clean Air

Sustainable habitat

Sustainable

Knowledge portal

Climate change

Resource Centre

Down To Earth

Gobar Times

CSE Websites

Green School

Programme

Media Resource

Centre

AAETI

Sustainable

industrialisation

Sustainable urban &

rural water

management

Climate change

Renewable energy

Food safety & toxins

Books

Films

Anil Agarwal Green

College

CSE WebsitePushing for an interactive

AAETI

Pushing for an interactive

interphase

AAETI CSE Website

AAETI Down to Earth website

AAETI Green Clearance Watch

CSE’s Global Presence

AAETI

CSE’s Global Presence

AAETI Global Interactions (2014 – 15)

AAETI Global Engagements (2015 – 16)

AAETI is a learning, training and innovation

centre to find appropriate and affordable

solutions to some of the most pressing

AAETIAnil Agarwal Environment Training

Institute (AAETI)

solutions to some of the most pressing

environmental problems faced by

developing countries.

AAETIAnil Agarwal Environment Training

Institute (AAETI)

The Schools

AAETI will conduct its courses on this campus through six Schools of Learning.

•School of environmental governance•School of environmental governance

•Centre of Climate Change

•School of sustainable urbanisation

•School of water and waste management

•Green community college

•School of environmental communication

Thank You

AAETI

Thank You