Everybody's a Loser

The World Trade Organization's recent ministerial meet in Seattle, USA, will be remembered more for the protestors who turned the venue into a …

Durban turning futile as EU buries head in sand

With the carbon market in doldrums, emerging economies like India will have to announce bolder schemes for a low carbon future

Any cheers for Doha pact?

The Doha Declaration on protecting public health is a decade old, but developing countries have not been able to make use of TRIPs flexibilities

No climate for cleantech

Most of the clean energy innovations are with just six rich countries and hardly any technology is coming to developing nations

The sinking debate

The climate change negotiations have come to a halt over the issue of sinks. Neelam Singh discusses the associated complications

Newest Biggest Deal

In Kyoto, in 1997, nations of the world agreed the Clean Development Mechanism (cdm) was a competent way to combat climate change. The process …

Climate inaction

Frozen at gateway

The Doha outcome is all talk no action. In 2007, the Bali Action Plan had called for an urgent reduction in carbon emissions by developed …

India's nutritional puzzle

From the maw of the Indian state there has emerged an undigested piece of development cake: nutritionally speaking, people's diets are out of …

Why the US is such a bully

US attempts to kill of global democracy are getting more commonplace than ever. In such a political climate, it is impossible to talk about …

E-waste posing health risks for workers in scrapyards

Fruitful deliberations

Two global meetings chart a course for weeding out biopiracy

CoP-8: Nothing's brewing

For a fortnight, 1,456 delegates from 167 countries sat in conference halls, attended plenary sessions and roundtables, and sized each other up …

Cancun redux

Reflecting upon the fifth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization at Cancun, a Down To Earth editorial (see: "How not to lose …

What Durban did not discuss

IPRs are blocking access to mitigation and adaptation technologies. India offers a way out

Disclosure-shy industry

Pharma and biotech firms are lobbying hard to block disclosure of origin of genetic material used in inventions, but they also raise thorny issues

Pact politics

High political drama marks climate negotiations as the European Union strives to ratify the Kyoto protocol without the US, world's biggest polluter

Playing safe

Nations finally draft a treaty to combat the use of toxic chemicals like DDT and PCBs, which are known for their damning health effects

Tangible shift

Bioprocessing - the Indian leather industry braces itself for an environmental facelift

In Obninsk there was a mausoleum

Nuclear power wants to pose as peace, sustainability. But to the world, it has always meant the bomb and danger. What are governments doing to …

Testing the CL route

Roche’s Herceptin will be a test case for government and generics industry as India readies to issue compulsory licences for life-saving drugs

The civil spring

Have an aggressive government and an overreaching judiciary curbed dissent?

Hold Up!

The stage seemed set for another climate meeting to serve the economic interests of the US better than the threat of global warming

Climate change conference- World leaders fail to act again

The 12th Conference of Parties to the UN climate convention saw the setting up of an adaptation fund to help poor countries. Ritu Gupta …

Clash of the cyberworlds

In an increasingly digital world, the issue of Internet freedom and governance has become hugely contested. Censorship and denial of access occur …