Sustainability and the southern perspective

European environmentalists tackle Third World concerns of irresponsible overconsumption by northern countries

PIPRA: An attempt to hoodwink the Third World

The ongoing attempts to strengthen intellectual property protection regimes through the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) …

Is institutional racism for real?

A recent review of editorial boards of ten leading international psychiatry journals has revealed almost nil representation from developing countries

Sanitary by 2010

Participatory survey gives Bangladesh the confidence to prepone sanitation coverage target

The jab jigsaw

Polio poser for India: what's the right remedy?

Oil price shock

India's energy policy is taking a precipitous path

New rules for secrecy

Critics have condemned the World Bank's new information policy, as a mockery of the basic rules of informed public debate and environmental …

A little "war" between the North and South

The public debate between Dutch environment minister Hans Alders and Sunita Narain of the Centre for Science and Environment, covering a whole …

Avoiding harm - how simple a duty is it?

The London High Court judgment on arsenic poisoning cases in Bangladesh explicity clears the way for affected people to claim compensation. …

A handmaiden of the West

The Stockholm Convention is against the interests of the developing world

End of dividend

Blueprints for change

In search of Vision 2020

The vision of a 'common future' appears to have been lost somewhere along the way from the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 to the first assembly of the …

When the G-20 holds

World trade negotiations are bound to be more multilateral

Too opaque for comfort

There is a serious mismatch between global realities and the World Bank's governing structure

Within the enemy

Humankind faces the most prolonged and worst exposure to pollution within the four walls of its homes - indoors - where biomass combustion spells …

A meaningful TREATY?

The Kyoto Protocol to the Climate Change Convention is the first step towards defining the emissions reduction targets of industralised countries.…

Diesel: no answer to global warming

Renewed focus

But the next one year is crucial to renewable energy in India

Smokescreen

The most powerful government in the world and the behemoth tobacco industry are waging a ding-dong battle over...well, cigarettes

Farmers take on multinationals

Small farmers protesting the monopoly of multinationals over the world's food resources take to the streets in Bangalore.

Indian report will stir up Copenhagen meet

An Indian government report that criticises and asks for several amendments in the Montreal Protocol is expected to generate heated debate among …

Water treatment need not cost the earth

Countries like India are increasingly opting for expensive, high-tech water treatment systems instead of low-cost, low-tech water treatment …

Sustainability and the southern perspective

European environmentalists tackle Third World concerns of irresponsible overconsumption by northern countries

No Headway

The just-concluded international conference on climate change in Buenos Aires saw the developing countries ranged against the US which was trying …