[sustran] "Time" hails environmentalist Sunita Narain, Bhure Lal as "Climate Crusaders"

[Sujit Patwardhan]

Monday March 27, 2006




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 "Time" hails environmentalist Sunita Narain, Bhure Lal as "Climate
Crusaders"


New York, Mar 27 (ANI): International magazine Time has praised
environmentalists Sunita Narain and Bhure Lal for their consistent effort to
reduce the amount of air pollution in Delhi in their latest edition.

In a report titled" The Climate Crusaders",Times wrote: "Sunita Narain and
Bhure Lal led to build the world's cleanest public-transport network", and
then adds; "Narain and Lal don't claim to have slowed global warming. But
their efforts have attracted requests for advice from as far away as Kenya
and Indonesia".

Sunita Narain, Director of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and
Bhure Lal, former bureaucrat and Chairman of the Environment Pollution
(Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) have been credited with removing
the highly polluting diesel buses from Delhi's public transport system and
replacing them with clean CNG buses.

Times in their latest cover story on global warming have also referred the
duo as "pollution fighters" and has highlighted the trials and tribulations
faced by them in order to relieve "Delhi from choking".

The magazine in its report writes about the July 1998 order of Supreme Court
on a lawsuit filed by Sunita Narain that was objected to by the bus owners
and oil companies, most of them getting support from ministers. It then adds
that the Committee formed on the Court's order and headed by Lal along with
Narain "fought back and by December 2002 the last diesel bus had left Delhi,
and 10,000 taxis, 12,000 buses and 80,000 rickshaws were powered by CNG".

"Although air pollution in Delhi has stabilized, the fight for clean air is
far from won", Times write and quotes Narain as saying "Delhi leapfrogged".

Narain, a recipient of many national and international awards, was awarded
with Stockholm Water Prize and Padma Shri by the Government of India last
year.

Narain and Lal share spaces with Fred Krupp the noted environmentalist whose
effort to have a trading system to control carbon dioxide emission, along
with China's Li Zheng, 35 years old writer and supporter of the Keep Winter
Cool campaign Auden Schendler and Rev. Jim Ball of U.S. who led the unique
"What Would Jesus Drive?" campaign in 2002 against gas-guzzling cars. (ANI)


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