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 …
High road to Dubai COP28: Here is how Global Stocktake talks fared in week 1 at Bonn
Adaptation, finance and pre-2020 implementation gap highlighted at Bonn Climate Conference
Time to reform UN Security Council, Bretton Woods system outdated: Guterres
Can’t ignore vast majority of countries suffering a deep financial crisis, UN Secretary-General says at G7 meet
How ‘vaccine nationalism’ could block vulnerable populations’ access to COVID-19 vaccines
Vaccine nationalism also runs against the fundamental principles of vaccine development and global public health
Cipla's bitter pill for MNCs
Several eyebrows have been raised over the Cipla offer to supply anti- aids drugs at one-third the current price to developing countries like …
Race to kill kyoto protocol
As Copenhagen nears, Obamas America sees new hope Yes, we can...dump climate multilateralism. In Bangkok, most developed countries joined the …
Obama takes first dip
The US becomes the first to join a global patents pool to make AIDS drugs cheaper but health workers are sceptical of the initiative
Access, yes. Sharing, no
The access and benefit-sharing protocol on biodiversity may do little to deter multinationals from grabbing the planet’s resources
Double standards on fossil fuel, backtracking on pledges: BASIC fires shots at wealthy countries at COP27
India, China and Pakistan to work together in climate forum over common interests of developing countries
Sunita Narain analyses the Paris Agreement
Sunita Narain, Director General Centre For Science and Environment, Delhi talks about the wins and losses from the Paris Climate Change Agreement.&…
‘We have no time for emission offsets’
For 10 years Jutta Kill has monitored and critiqued EU’s climate policy and carbon trading with a focus on forests and the rights of forest …
Mutual interest
Farmers care for the hill slopes only when the hills provide livelihood -- a simple lesson that has been forgotten
Why shouldn’t I be intolerant?
The circles of information have shrunk to what is most agreeable to listen to. It is no surprise that in all environmental conversations there is …
Bonn: Developing countries push for adaptation to be included in Paris agreement
Differences between developed and developing countries continue to mar progress of negotiations
Old as the hills
Shifting agriculture on the hillsides has been going on for centuries. In recent times, it has been blamed for degrading the ecology. Agriculture …
It’s still open season for bio-piracy
Rich nations block accord on benefit-sharing rules for the world’s genetic resources
What next?
More and more people are waking up to the need for an international climate regime based on the principle of per capita entitlements to the …
Breathing uneasy
Threat from occupational exposure to pollutants, especially to young children and pregnant women, is growing rapidly. There is no time for …
Compromising on climate
Jan Pronk, chairperson of climate change talks held in New York, offers a compromise plan that gives away too much on sinks
Time for total recoil
Mosquito coils are finally in the dock, after a prolonged deference. Two independent studies indicate that coils commonly used in Asian countries,…
Parties at Bonn find ways to make draft text ‘balanced’
The text that was released on October 5 was supposed to be more clear, structured and concise
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
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