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Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 12:05:41 +0530
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Subject: CSE invitation: Media Briefing Workshop on Pollution and Congestion

CSE Media Briefing Workshop

Air Quality, Public Health and the Mobility Crisis in our Cities

Understanding urban vehicular congestion and pollution
and the ways to cope with it

CSE Office, Core 6 A, Fourth Floor
India Habitat Centre
New Delhi

May 29-30, 2008

Most cities in India are stuck in a logjam: growing traffic congestion
and air pollution generated by vehicles has become a vexed and
critical problem. This has grim environmental repercussions that set off
staggering health and economic fall-outs, affecting tens of millions of
people. Your city, in all probability, is not an exception.

As a burgeoning vehicle population threatens to swamp our urban
centres, residents and visitors alike are left reeling from a daily intake
of a variety of noxious pollutants and particles. At the same time, their
travel experience has become more cumbersome and time-taking. Air
quality and congestion management as an issue, therefore, demands
urgent understanding, reportage and public debate - and solutions
through a national policy.

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) invites you to a two-day
media briefing workshop in New Delhi to discuss, debate and
understand the issues and the solutions thereof (such as the BRT
system currently under trial in Delhi).

Key experts will explain and demystify the science and subject of air
pollution and congestion. Be it fuel quality or adulteration; pollutants,
respirable suspended particulate matter or toxic emissions;
maintenance of in-use vehicles, vehicular technology or transportation
policy; and the critical importance of public transport. The workshop is
expected to encourage greater understanding and clearer reportage by
getting behind the realpolitik.

Eligibility requirements and registration procedure
The Workshop is open for active journalists from India. To register, just
send us an e-mail or a fax, along with a copy of your CV, by May 15.
The Workshop offers limited seats; please register immediately.

We have the resources to support the travel and lodging of a few
outstation candidates on a first-come, first-served basis.

Registration requests must be sent to:
Souparno Banerjee
Coordinator, CSE Media Resource Centre
Centre for Science and Environment
41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area
New Delhi 110 062
Ph: 099108 64339, (11) 2995 5124, 2995 5125, 2995 6394, 2995 6401
Fax: (11) 2995 5879;
E-mail: souparno@cseindia.org
Website: www.cseindia.org

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