Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi
Sukanya Nair is currently working as Deputy Programme Manager at Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi. Prior to this role, Sukanya has held positions such as Programme Officer and Senior Research Associate at the same organization. Sukanya also has experience as a Research Associate at Police Foundation and Institute in India. Sukanya has interned at various organizations such as Save the Children, India, and Goldman Sachs, where Sukanya worked on Margin Valuation and Pricing. Sukanya holds a Master's degree in Public Policy from O. P. Jindal Global University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Ethiraj College For Women.
Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi. CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable. The scenario today demands using knowledge to bring about change. In other words, working India’s democracy. This is what we aim to do.The challenge, we see, is two-pronged. On the one hand, millions live within a biomass based subsistence economy, at the margins of survival. The environment is their only natural asset. But a degraded environment means stress on land, water and forest resources for survival. It means increasing destitution and poverty. Here, opportunity to bring about change is enormous.But it will need a commitment to reform – structural reform- in the way we do business with local communities. On the other hand, rapid industrialization is throwing up new problems: growing toxification and a costly disease burden. The answers will be in reinventing the growth model of the Western world for ourselves, so that we can leapfrog technology choices and find new ways of building wealth that will not cost us the earth. Our aim is to raise these concerns, participate in seeking answers and in pushing for answers, transforming these into policy and so practice. We do this through our research and by communicating our understanding through our publications. We call this knowledge-based activism. We hope we will make a difference.