Anju Sharma

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Head of UNESCO's Man and Biosphere Programme which seeks to lay emphasis on the people

India Climate Change Developing Countries WTO Trade Farmers Environment Politics Sustainable Development Forests Biodiversity

Snowstorms in Delhi?

A biopiracy coup

Can the recent convention on biodiversity be called that?

The way out of energy and climate change dilemmas

Providing energy to the poor does not make good business. Take electricity. Connecting the 2 billion in the world who do not have access to large …

Drumming it in

Should local communities pay for Western notions of 'global benefit'?

Trade might is not right

What's wrong with global negotiations today?

Whose CARBON hypocrisy?

Should Northern groups campaign to stop fossil fuel funding in the South?

No Headway

The just-concluded international conference on climate change in Buenos Aires saw the developing countries ranged against the US which was trying …

No Headway

The just-concluded international conference on climate change in Buenos Aires saw the developing countries ranged against the US which was trying …

Drooping research

Gone to the shepherd in the sky

Writer Gerald Malcom Durrell's death leaves a void in both the animal and the human world

Leaf storm

Indian scientists are resorting to tissue culture to salvage plants facing extinction

A jumbo by the tail

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Nature's pollution indicators

Certain plant and animal species are being used as "early warning systems" for pollution

Rogue elephants in the backyard

A study explains why peaceful pachyderms go on rampages that leave crops and humans devastated

All the weight of the world

STATE OF THE WORLD 1994 Publisher: Worldwatch Institute Price: $11.95

WSSD: dialogue of the deaf

The needs of many were once again compromised to accommodate the demands of a powerful few. Given the alarming tilt towards self-interest and …

Everybody's a Loser

The World Trade Organization's recent ministerial meet in Seattle, USA, will be remembered more for the protestors who turned the venue into a …

The blind Court

This is a story of justice denied. On February 13, 1996, the Supreme Court, the highest seat of justice in the country, ruled that five units …

Rich bias

THE SKEPTICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST Bjørn Lomborg · Cambridge University Press · Cambridge · 2001 · Pages: pp 515 &…

Trade truce

It was neither a victory for the North nor a defeat for the South. Environment took centrestage as the main bargaining chip, but the discussions …

Keep on the grass

Alpine pastures are thriving despite policies to encourage grazing. But Himalayan pastures languish despite strong conservationist policies

That 'E' word again

Most Northern groups that dominate the civil society opinion-making process within the climate convention have consistently ignored Southern …

Climate Change

Another crawl for humankind

The Kyoto agenda shuffled along at the recent climate change meeting in Bonn, but climate change mitigation was still not in sight

Rio's Stepchild

The UN Convention to Combat Desertification is a non-starter. Administrative and financial matters get the better of any serious attempts to deal …

In dubious battle

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has failed to curb illegal trade in Indian wildlife and wildlife products. …

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