How secure?

Experts wary of EcoSecurities' entry into Indian market

"Inland aquaculture can improve livelihoods of millions"

M Vijay Gupta, former assistant director general, World Fish Center, Penang, Malaysia was the World Food Prize winner in 2005. He talks to Sourav …

Green issues need equitable entitlements

Now that the Cold War is over, concern for the environment will play a vital role in international relations in the foreseeable future.

Rio has not changed the North-South equation

The UNCED deliberations have to be viewed in the context of northern attempts to maintain hegemony over the rest of the world

Did Riocentro learn anything from Flamengo park?

While heads of state deliberated on the future of the world at the Riocentro, social activists and NGOs expressed their sense of frustration …

McNamara shoots from the hip

Today's neo-Malthusians have acquired a fashionable new fig leaf: environmentalism. And Robert McNamara's recent talk in Delhi was an eloquent …

Passing USA's laugh test

Helping George Bush gain political mileage seemed to be the overriding concern at the recent climate convention negotiations in New York. India …

Green illusios

Germany is swamped in a controversy about a study which says sustainable development can be achieved only when the consumption of resources is …

Pressure on the South

The Kyoto Protocol could save the industralised North from taking action to reduce its own emissions. A cheaper and easier option is available to …

A humble beginning

Developing nations should get more actively involved with international politics on climate change. They should propose and direct negotiations, …

Banking on carbon

World Bank's proposed role in the global carbon market is good news for the US, but it may spell doom for developing countries

ABC of environment education

The North's experiences in environment education are not useful for the South

We, the consumers

Modern society is little concerned with how goods we use are produced and disposed of

Beating about the bush

Many important issues were hardly touched upon at the recently concluded conference on bioresources

Smokescreen

The most powerful government in the world and the behemoth tobacco industry are waging a ding-dong battle over...well, cigarettes

Forests of global contention

The South's determined efforts to scuttle the forest convention that the North was adamant on pushing through was a major triumph. A blow-by-…

Evaluators of nature

Tiffs with scrap

Beware of waste that can be recycled

Sustainability and the southern perspective

European environmentalists tackle Third World concerns of irresponsible overconsumption by northern countries

PIPRA: An attempt to hoodwink the Third World

The ongoing attempts to strengthen intellectual property protection regimes through the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) …

Is institutional racism for real?

A recent review of editorial boards of ten leading international psychiatry journals has revealed almost nil representation from developing countries

Sanitary by 2010

Participatory survey gives Bangladesh the confidence to prepone sanitation coverage target

The jab jigsaw

Polio poser for India: what's the right remedy?

Oil price shock

India's energy policy is taking a precipitous path

Climate Emergency CoP 25: The Adaptation Fund is perfectly fit to serve the Paris Agreement

But some countries insist that its fundamental structure be changed