Clifford Polycarp

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UK's minister of state for environment and agri-environment

WTO Trade India Environment US Legislation Agriculture Industry Development WHO

Decks cleared, partly

Plan chalked out to keep marine aliens at bay, but implementation unlikely soon

UNEP non-science

Politics hinders process to make the apex body scientifically sound

Offshoot that matters

But Indian communities may lose out due to lack of official preparedness

Inventors gain

But the South feels cheated

At a standstill

No forward movement in trade talks, post-Cancun

Healing touch

WTO pact inked on cheap drugs for poor countries

Battlelines drawn

Farm trade: it's developing countries vs EU-US

The hunt for new markets

What liberalising trade on environmental goods and services in the WTO is about

Indian chilli blocked in EU

Indian exporters of chilli products are smarting. The EU has all but shut the door on them after recently detecting the presence of Sudan red 1, …

GI woe

Geographical indication debate intensifies as EU ups the ante

Uphill TRIPS

Bid to revive morality, transparency issues in patents regime amid stiff resistance

Fine print hassles

Chemical manufacturers shaken by India's signing POPs convention

Negotiations on biological resources inch forward

The conservation and sustainable management of biological resources was high on the international agenda in February 2004. Representatives of …

Break the Deadlock

In 1995, many in India were outraged to learn that a university in the US was granted a patent to make and sell haldi (turmeric) for its wound …

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 …

South Asian Union: Dream reality?

A closer-knit South Asian community is not beyond the realms of possibility now. At the 12th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation …

New US rules on food imports

It has been nine months since the US began its search for chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Although nothing was found,…

India must rethink timber strategy

From being a net exporter of timber, India has turned into its net importer. The reversal stems from the country's soaring demand for industrial …

Russia reneging on Kyoto?

The earth is hotter than it has been in the past 2000 years and the largest ice shelf in the Artic has broken into two after having existed for …

Road to Cancun - Waivers on paper

The only semblance of fairness that exists in the various agreements of the World Trade Organization is contained in their 155 "special and …

Affordable medicines row

The US pharmaceutical industry -- which has so far prevented its government from endorsing a prescription for change -- is now directly engaging …

Countdown to Cancun: Agricultural subsidies

why should four per cent of the agricultural workforce (mostly affluent) in high-income countries reap the rich harvest of an international trade …

Conflicts are bad for the environment, says UNEP report

At a time when the threat of war looms large over Iraq, here's more ammunition for peaceniks to confront warmongers with. The United Nations …

US asbestos industry seeks escape clause in law

Asbestos-related litigation in the us runs into billions of dollars today. So much so that the amount is estimated to exceed the combined cost of …

Green signals from cellphone companies

Manufacturers sign declaration at the Sixth Conference of Parties (CoP-6) to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of …

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