COASTLINE CONSERVATION

Conservation grant

Incomplete planning

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Drought across the border

Dams are the talking point in Pakistan where the regions of Sindh and Baluchistan have been hit by drought

Centre allots funds

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To fix the hole...

...India to get $82 million to phase out production of CFCs, an ozone-depleting substance

Mixed response

Second look

Wildlife project under review

Debt-burdened Indonesia bows to World Bank

Large foreign debts have forced Indonesia to give in to World Bank pressure and adopt structural economic changes.

Whither civil society?

Every 4th person to suffer hearing loss by 2050: WHO

At least 700 million people will suffer from disabling hearing loss

The will is there, but not the funds

India has prepared a detailed plan to phase out chemicals that destroy the ozone layer, but its implementation is subject to aid from the …

Double standards of the world's green helmets

Finnish belt-tightening chokes green projects

Faced with the century's worst recession Helsinki has had to cut back heavily on development aid. At stake are several international …

Third World posers for Northern donors

In the new environment-sensitive atmosphere after Rio, two Northern agencies that aid research projects in the developing world are being …

Politics of punctuation

A comma gave rise to an argument over whether technology transfer should take place according to terms agreed upon at Rio or terms mutually …

The fight to save Moenjodaro

A worldwide initiative to save the ancient city is trying to lower the water table around it and bind back the Indus before it gets washed away

Japanese unhappy about resettlement plans

The Japanese have refuted Indian press reports that they were satisfied with R&R measures for the Narmada dam project

Reserve reserves

Green city

The aid for forces

A debate rages over proposed Dutch development aid

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