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 …

True growth is about overcoming hard challenges

IN THE developed world, conducting business today is also about being environmentally accountable. Governments have imposed stringent regulatory …

Oil price shock

India's energy policy is taking a precipitous path

On the defensive at Cancun?

Recently Arun Jaitley identified agriculture and investment as the two main issues for next month's World Trade Organization ministerial …

Sinks: A carbon reservoir

There is lot os uncertainly on the question of carbon sinks. To what extent can they actually absorb carbon dioxide emissions? And, should …

Fast and fatal

The furious march of the fast food industry

Hong Kong: a beginning?

In making TRIPS responsive to needs of poor countries?

Backyard mess

Wastepaper is abundantly available in India. Yet the Indian paper industry depends heavily on imports. MONALI ZEYA HAZRA finds out why

Fig leaf for the business world

That is what the Montreal Protocol, meant to do away with ozone depleting substances, has become. India's phase out programme under the protocol …

Nuclear disarmament a distant goal

Road to Buenos Aires

The US strategy, calling for joint action by industrialised nations in the Pacific Rim to reduce carbon emissions, comes under fire from the …

Half-measure

NAFTA tribunal's ban on potential carcinogen leaves larger environmental issues unaddressed

Looking for the right bait

Developing countries like India need to be prepared for multilateral negotiations. This is certainly true of the fishing economy

Responses to DTE editorial 'No more kindergarten approach to climate change'

Fuel cell buses for Delhi Going nowhere?

Grants have been approved to facilitate the use of fuel cell buses in the developing countries

Green politics

Is your government signing away your future rights to the world's natural resources?

The anatomy of congestion

Travel today is relatively faster, and people across the world are travelling more than ever before. But at a giant cost: urban roads are choked …

Oceans may run out of fish population in 50 years

Fish might die in the next fifty years, or will they?

Failing to come clean

It is unclear whether the Indian government supports the transfer of nuclear energy technology under the climate convention's Kyoto Protocol

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

MAIght of OECD

A no-holds-barred treaty on investments would hand over the world on a platter to MNCs

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