Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework presents false solutions, says youth group
‘No clear component in framework to regulate actors causing destruction of biodiversity, ecosystems’
Faces of protection: 30x30 goal impossible without indigenous participation
A report at COP15 Montreal on protected areas lacks qualitative aspects of indigenous land
Biodiversity meet begins; India takes over presidency of CBD
CoP 11 will decide future course of action plans to meet Aichi Targets
Civil society groups appeal against sacrificing biosafety for biotech companies
Urge governments to implement biosafety protocols and adopting cautious approach towards risky technologies like genetic engineering
How companies got their way on biodiversity
Amendments to the Biodiversity Act let companies off the hook on having to share the benefits of using biological resources
Nagoya Protocol comes into force
The biodiversity protection pact will ensure that benefits of natural resources and their commercial derivatives are shared with local communities
Busy preludes to biodiversity meet
Crucial issues such as protection of traditional knowledge, and creation of an international regime on access to genetic resources and benefit …
Green politics
Is your government signing away your future rights to the world's natural resources?
Trail of a $500 m gene
How a rare African algae collected by a French academic turns into a commercial bonanza for an equity firm in Hong Kong. Are there any benefits …
Signatory to biosafety
Protecting 30% of Earth’s surface for nature means thinking about connections near and far
Protecting forests and grasslands can help slow climate change by promoting carbon storage in soil and plants
MAIght of OECD
A no-holds-barred treaty on investments would hand over the world on a platter to MNCs
Battle for turf
If the South wants to protect its interests against the power of the Bretton Woods institutions and WTO, it will need its own, equally powerful forum
Polluter says' principle
GEF should have been a liability fund, rather than a 'guilt fund' set up by the North to make up for the global damage it had caused
Free, not fair
Does a country have the right to demand that its domestic standards on environmental protection be applicable to all countries?
Wood-headed proposal
After almost 10 years of fighting for or against a forest convention, there is not even a common view on why forests are under threat and what …
Toxic travellers
Developing countries are wary of the proposed treaty as chemicals like DDT are still used in many malaria-prone regions for vector control
Rio's stepchild
Northern countries still see desertification as a local problem caused by population pressures rather than international trade patterns and …
Biodiversity
To energise the biodiversity convention, the world will have to first deal with difficult countries like the US
Boiling point
Climate change negotiations get emotional because carbon dioxide emissions are closely related to individual lifestyles - and to national …
Coming out of coma
A decline in its funds and erosion in its mandate have made the United Nations Environment Programme virtually ineffective. Bharat H Desai looks …
Traditional knowledge of fisher people may be included in the process of identifying marine biodiversity hot spots
Some countries noncommittal about identifying ecologically and biologically sensitive marine areas in high seas and territorial waters
MoEF failed to protect environment: Public Accounts Committee
Forest cover of India is just 21 per cent against the target of 33 per cent set by Planning Commission for 2012
US $50 million to protect biodiversity in India
Manmohan Singh says the challenge is to develop new models of inclusive conservation
The pig-headed species
Overzealous conservationists block progress at CITES meet (Read full article)