Sunil Shaunak on ethical medicine, patent laws

Sunil Shaunak of Imperial College, London, is pioneering 'ethical pharmaceuticals'. He talks to Subhra Priyadarshini about his work, evergreening …

Paris finance meet: Key takeaways from a summit that showed the scale of the challenge ahead

The summit did not precipitate any transformational solutions, but it started a conversation on the climate and development financing crisis, and …

COVID-19: Worst economic performance by very poor countries in 30 years

43 least developed countries are experiencing a fall in their average income levels, says UNCTAD report

Sunita Narain highlights hits and misses of Paris climate deal

The agreement has come after an intense two weeks of negotiations and represents a lot of compromises made, particularly by developing countries &…

Dealing with waste

On the 10th anniversary of the Basel Convention, member states reiterate the need to minimise the generation of hazardous waste

Russia ambiguous on Kyoto

With Russia blowing hot and cold on ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, the ninth conference of parties (COP-9) to the UN Framework Convention on …

Developing countries are dumpyards for e-waste

A recent study in the US shows that by 2004, over 315 million computers will become obsolete. By 2005, for every single computer an American buys,…

High road to Dubai COP28: 6th Technical Expert Dialogue on New Collective Quantified Goal held at Bonn

Quantum of new climate finance goal should be based on needs of developing countries, backed by science & tied to specific outcomes, …

Avoiding climate breakdown depends on protecting Earth’s biodiversity — can the COP15 summit deliver?

COP15 brings together parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) with a goal of negotiating this decade’s biodiversity …

Climate talks in Bonn serve a grim reminder

Negotiations at the recently concluded climate meet at Bonn were a replay of post-Bali discussions in 2007; Parties agreed to move into formal …

Death Inside The Factory Gates

Asbestos makes homes, but it also causes cancer. The "indestructible" substance is increasingly being cast aside by developed countries,…

The crossover

Fuel cells are more important to a developing country like India than developed countries. But the corporate sector is slow.

Inklings

In which we trace where the world stands with fuel cells and some clear signals of the technology to come

Hurdles

Narrow business interests and an apathetic political leadership will never allow fuel cells to take off

Focus on pledges

Accountability issue set to take centrestage at the upcoming CoP-8 (Read full article)

"Governments should try for 100 per cent pure water"

HANS JEURING is the chairperson of Codex Committee on Pesticides Residue (CCPR). It is responsible for establishing maximum limits for pesticide …

What negotiations mean for least developed countries

They insist that loss and damage is a non-negotiable element of the Paris agreement

Paris foretold and forewarned: what to expect from COP21

The French government knows it cannot make the same blunders as the Danish government made in Copenhagen in 2009, when trust between countries&…

Inheritance of loss

Economic losses due to extreme weather events reach record high while nations spar over liability

THE FUTURE OF CLEAN ENERGY

A simple chemical reaction is the basis of fuel cell technology. Fuel cells run on hydrogen to provide electricity. The only byproduct is water …

Talking in riddles

A recent protocol on compensation to victims of hazardous waste permits the generators to go scot-free

Immunisation's lethal leftovers

Immunisation is a double-edged sword -- providing a shield against diseases, at the same time generating waste that can be hazardous to health …

Looking for the right bait

Developing countries like India need to be prepared for multilateral negotiations. This is certainly true of the fishing economy

Pressure point

At the climate change conference in Poznan, Poland, the world could get cooked, for good A curtain raiser on the climate negotiations in …

On the impacts of nanotechnology

Barry Castleman, an environmental consultant and expert on workplace health hazards, tells Arnab Pratim Dutta about nanotechnology's impacts