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Cities of joy
Issue Date: May 15, 2000
mayor Horst Mller was overwhelmed. Around 200 citizens of Olpe, a small industrial town west of Cologne, Germany, had gathered to attend the first meeting for the Local Agenda 21 ( la21 ). The numbers were much more than expected.
Deaths foretold
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2000
Ninety per cent of the 50,000 persons who died in the October 29, 1999, super cyclone that hit the Ersama block in coastal Orissa would be alive today - if only the population there had been evacuated inland, beyond the reach of the three 10-metre-high tidal waves that swept away everything in their wake. And there was all the time in the world to do it.
When Will India Be Able To Control Pollution?
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2000
Rio's stepchild
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2000
UN CONVENTION TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION
In force from December 1996, Ratified by 145 countries
The convention The persistence of countries from Africa, where two-thirds of the land area is either desert or dryland, led to the decision to adopt the Convention to Combat Desertification ( ccd ) at Rio in 1992. The main elements of the convention include
Toxic travellers
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2000
Ongoing negotiations on a legally binding instrument for international action on certain PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS
Deadline for the treaty to be signed:2001
The negotiations National governments have now come together to negotiate a global treaty to control and eventually eliminate pop s from the environment.
Wood-headed proposal
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2000
INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATIONS ON FORESTS
Intergovernmental Panel on Forests set up in 1995
Intergovernmental Forum on Forests set up in 1997
Free, not fair
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2000
INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATIONS ON TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT
History of conflict - The world initiated a multilateral trading system with the establishment of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( gatt ) in 1946 to promote trade liberalisation.
MAIght of OECD
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2000
THE MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT ON INVESTMENTS
Polluter says' principle
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2000
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL FACILITY
Established in October 1991, number of members: 165
