'Investment in renewable energy growing by leaps and bounds'
Report shows investment in renewable energy has increased by five per cent to touch US $ 285.9 billion in 2015
South flays North's 'green GATT' proposal
At a recent meeting, Northern environmentalists insisted on GATT taking a tougher stand on environmental issues. The South, however, maintained …
Integrated development essential for India
Impact of Urbanisation and Industrialisation on Rural Society Edited by PS Lamba and S S Solanki . Publisher: Wiley Eastern Limited, Delhi . …
EC credibility at stake
In 1992, even rich nations began to feel the pinch of impoverishment - and it hurt enough to make them cut down on global charity
Time for green gadgets
UNCED has thrown into sharp focus all matters environmental international industry, quick to Catch on to now trends, has started branding its …
'It really riles me to see developing countries pushed into a corner'
Tough-talking Malaysian negotiator Wen Lian Ting explains why the North's stand on forests is morally unjust and politically untenable
South gains words but loses its genes
While the North has made no commitment to reduce its emissions,, the South commits itself to protect the world's biodiversity
Entitlements
Two weeks of discussions on the Kyoto Protocol on climate change have just ended. But core problems remain. The world's worst polluters are …
SPREADING SMOKE
Strict US legislations are forcing cigarette companies to shift business to developing countries, where they are helped by lax laws and …
Cutting emissions
With contributions from corporations and developed nations, the World Bank launches a programme for developing countries to invest in cleaner …
US puts a price on Sri Lanka's forests
The US congress has reportedly approved a $5-million waiver, thereby quantifying the debt-for-nature swap offer made to Sri Lanka more than two …
High Road to Dubai COP28: Seven days later, Agenda for SB 58 still not adopted
Parties and chairs of the SBI and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice have gone back into huddles to decide on the way …
The great Western aid trick
Countries donate on condition that recipient nations buy goods from them, shows a report
Uncertain economy: ‘Green goods’ grew last year despite a slowdown in global trade, says UNCTAD
Trade stagnated for Q1 of 2023, but second half of year shows promise; underdeveloped and developing countries performed poorly
Getting out of fossils
Quickly ramping up cheaper finance should be JET-P’s focus so that the new energy future is clean
Decline in adolescent pregnancies ‘alarmingly slow’ in developing countries: UN
Central & southern Asia has one of the highest likelihoods of rapid repeat pregnancies
India seeks permanent solution on fisheries subsidies, public stockholdings ahead of WTO meet
Civil society members claim current negotiations tabled at the WTO’s MC12 do not favour developing countries
Bonn Climate Conference begins with tense stand-off on ‘Loss and Damage’
Developing countries complained about inadequate focus on loss and damage and climate adaptation
Will a new and ‘improved’ WTO be in India’s interests
The World Trade Organization needs an overhaul, but the reform will leave even less space for developing nations
Per capita emissions of nations should converge by 2050, says UK commission
The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution supports the Southern demand for equity in climate negotiations. Will the UK government adopt the …
COP24: Developing world continues to seek funds for agriculture
Nations participating in the conference discussed climate change impacts on agriculture at a workshop in Katowice
Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement adopts revised agenda at the Bonn climate talks
This came after intense back door consultations with Parties resulting in compromises and eventual consensus
Doha endgame at Nairobi
WTO has buried the development mandate of the Doha round, with India failing to pull its weight at the ministerial meeting
Forgotten healers
Traditional medicine system has time and again proved its worth. Then why the cold shoulder?
World Bank gets jittery
As bank gears up for competition, it may further dilute environmental safeguard policies