Sunita narain biography of barack

  • Sunita Narain has cut quite a name for herself in her homeland and the developing world, campaigning to deal with climate change and what she calls “climate.
  • Began career as research assistant, was appointed deputy director in 1993 and in 2000 took over as its director and in 2011 took over as its director general.
  • Over the last five decades, Sunita Narain has been striving to make environmental consciousness everybody's business.

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    Centre for Science and Environment New Delhi

    1982 to Present

    Director General

    Began career as research assistant, was appointed deputy director in 1993 and in 2000 took over as its director and in 2011 took over as its director general. Has worked in various program units of the Centre involved in research, communication and advocacy on environmental issues. Has co-edited publications on the State of India's Environment, conducted in-depth research on the governance and management of the country's environment and directed campaigns on air pollution control, community water management and pesticide regulation.

    Society for Environmental Communications New Delhi

    1992 to Present

    Editor

    Editor of the fortnightly newsmagazine, Down To Earth. Has worked to launch and produce the newsmagazine that is widely considered as the best in the region.

    1980 - 1981: Vikram Sarabhai Institute for Development Research Ahmedabad

    Research Assistant

    Worked to research a publication

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    Sunita Narain: Portrait of an activist

    Back in May this year, Time magazine named its “100 Most Influential People” of the world for 2016—a list that included such well-known figures as Leonardo di Caprio, Pope Francis, Mark Zuckerberg, and the president of the United States, Barack Obama. And included among them was an environmentalist perhaps best-known to the reading public in the West for a book titled “Excreta Matters.”

    While not readily known outside her native India, Sunita Narain has cut quite a name for herself in her homeland and the developing world, campaigning to deal with climate change and what she calls “climate justice,” fighting for improved water and air quality, championing the dying wisdom of India’s traditional systems of husbanding water—and often putting herself at odds with those in power.

    Narain is also known as one of the most vociferous voices articulating the interests of developing co

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    But on this trip to India, the president was an agent of the same business model, which is not only bringing his country down economically, but also bringing the world to the precipice of a climate disaster. It fryst vatten this consumption-based model of market economy that needs to be deciphered and rejected.

    Let’s look at the ABCDE of what is at stake in the US-India trade relationship. American (A) priority fryst vatten our agriculture—or (B) their biotechnology business. In recent years there have been hectic parleys between top US companies like Monsanto and India’s pliant and much-weakened agricultural science and policy establishment about greater access for business. Down To Earth reported (see ‘Rajasthan opens farm gates’, November 1-15, 2010) how the Rajasthan government has entered into memorandums of understanding with leading multinational biotech companies, including Monsanto, to do business in their products. It will put at their disposal agricultural universities and will assure värdshus