Center for Environmental Information and Management


One of the key reasons for lack of progress on environmental front is absence of scientific, accurate and objective data. This stymies effective environmental action. The increasing civic sensibility about environment is a tremendous opportunity to reduce environmental damage provided we have more precise information on the precise degree of damage and can fairly attribute responsibility. Knowing how market capitalisation of companies like Shell and Body Shop suffered at one stage due to poor perception of their environment information, few companies will show themselves to be polluters in public eyes. It is for this reason that WEF has set up a Centre for Environmental Information and Management( CEIM). The Centre aims to involve both business and civil society in environmental action through environment monitoring and indexing. It is designed to promote environment friendly processes, products, practices and technology among Indian business and industry and help businesses, benchmark with the very best. It will also provide business to business matchmaking service to help industry become more environment-friendly. It will compile environment management indicators and disseminate them nationwide through its website hariyali.org and will act as a clearing house for all information relating to environment management.