Hurdles

Narrow business interests and an apathetic political leadership will never allow fuel cells to take off

Focus on pledges

Accountability issue set to take centrestage at the upcoming CoP-8 (Read full article)

"Governments should try for 100 per cent pure water"

HANS JEURING is the chairperson of Codex Committee on Pesticides Residue (CCPR). It is responsible for establishing maximum limits for pesticide …

Mixed reactions: COP28 focuses on fossil fuel role in climate change but disregards equity, says CSE

Inclusion of fossil fuels in Global Stocktake important starting point, rest a mixed bag

All gas

Compromise on climate

Nations manage to resuscitate the Kyoto Protocol by a watered-down agreement

Twist in the TRIPS tale

UK panel endorses South's stand on intellectual property rights

Battlelines drawn

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

The slippery lifeline

The environmental footprint of oil

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

Economic growth brings in invasive species

Whose view of climate equity?

The polluters say they will not pay

Copenhagen According to USA

What negotiations mean for least developed countries

They insist that loss and damage is a non-negotiable element of the Paris agreement

Paris foretold and forewarned: what to expect from COP21

The French government knows it cannot make the same blunders as the Danish government made in Copenhagen in 2009, when trust between countries&…

Inheritance of loss

Economic losses due to extreme weather events reach record high while nations spar over liability

THE FUTURE OF CLEAN ENERGY

A simple chemical reaction is the basis of fuel cell technology. Fuel cells run on hydrogen to provide electricity. The only byproduct is water …

Talking in riddles

A recent protocol on compensation to victims of hazardous waste permits the generators to go scot-free

Immunisation's lethal leftovers

Immunisation is a double-edged sword -- providing a shield against diseases, at the same time generating waste that can be hazardous to health …

Looking for the right bait

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

Pressure point

At the climate change conference in Poznan, Poland, the world could get cooked, for good A curtain raiser on the climate negotiations in …

On the impacts of nanotechnology

Barry Castleman, an environmental consultant and expert on workplace health hazards, tells Arnab Pratim Dutta about nanotechnology's impacts

Peta's Pet

UK-based animal welfare group People for Ethical Treatment of Animals has been campaigning against Indian leather, alleging ill-treatment of …

World Bank axes coal-power funds

While India is unfazed by the decision, other developing countries may be hit hard