No more kindergarten approach to climate

Another co2alition of the willing?

2009 is full of promise

Equity: the next frontier in climate talks

Can we afford not to change?

The China affair what it means to us

Power games at UN climate talks

Climate talks unfolded amid high drama. Developing countries protested inaction by developed countries, civil society organisations walked out, …

Cop-out

Hopes were pinned on the latest UN climate summit at Lima. It was supposed to prepare the ground for a new climate deal that will replace the …

Out of joint

The global cycles of nitrogen and phosphorous

India duly sells South short

Developing countries herded into no-win deal

Toiling unsung

Rural women manage the family and the field, yet most development programmes target just the male farmer

Patent paradox

Developing countries may get trapped by the brazen and unabashedly faulty bio-patenting model that a US firm is flaunting

Urban villages - an oxymoron?

Urbanisation in developing countries is marked by large increases in population and has consequences such as sprawl. As a physical phenomenon, …

Transcending Kyoto

Time to move beyond the protocol's shadow

A handful of aces for the North

Global environmental concerns throw open the South to Northern intervention, whereas the South has limited interest in intervening in Northern …

Off to the next round

The South came back reasonably victorious from Rio, it was only because of the poor leadership of USA. The question now is: will it be able to …

The global green farce

At UNCED the inclustrialised countries do not want any serloys restructuring of their economies or their lifestyles to save the earth. But the …

WTO vs MEAs

A developing country perspective

Africa proposes

Recognise community knowledge. Do not patent life

Debt end

Efforts to relieve poor countries of their debt remains inadequate

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