The true cost of water

No firm commitment on climate change at G8 meet

The missing public

50 years of international aid: World’s richest countries owe $5.7 trillion debt to poor, says OXFAM

Substantial debt owed to world’s poorest people 9 times more than sub-Saharan Africa’s stock of external debt at 2019-end

The `hot' debate

Operationalisation of equity and financial assistance will determine the future of climate negotiations

Developing countries unanimously reject LCA text

None of developing countries' concerns reflected in the negotiating text; closure of LCA in Doha looks difficult

NCD battle starts now

The UN agreement on non-communicable diseases will get snagged on the issue of intellectual property rights for drugs

Children under threat !

Rising cases of respiratory ailments in children, due to air pollution, fail to stir the Indian government

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

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 …

Let us be smart about 'differentiation'

It important to deconstruct the politics of differentiation

Rio: not plus or minus, just 20

The shifting smoke of tobacco

The POPs treaty

A historical chance to get rid of some of the most toxic substances known to humans

Bali: the mother of all no-deals

The Gates accounts

Climate lectures don't make lessons

Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property