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Our Approches and initiatives
India,and indeed, most of the developing world, is being fundamentally transformed by both globalization and urbanization. Although it is being acknowledged for its role as an increasingly central player in world affairs, India remains home to 300 million people who live off less than a dollar a day. According to some projections, by 2030, not only will 50% of India be urbanized, but, along with China, it will also cradle 50% of the world's slums.
What is unique in urban India, however, is the work of hundreds of thousands of informal sector waste-recyclers, comprising waste pickers, waste buyers and waste reprocessors. They bear the brunt of the city's consumption and offer it the only recycling services it has.
Given that one of the biggest environmental problems in Indian cities is that of waste and toxics, Chintan uses these as entry points to address concerns of environmental and social justice and environmental governance. Our work is informed by several other ongoing dialogues -the Millennium Development Goals, several international environmental and social treaties, such as the Stockholm Convention, the Kyoto Protocol, the Convention of the Rights of the Child and The Rio Declaration of 1992, which we re-envision in our specific context. Some of our key initiatives are:
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