Slow progress at climate meet

We need global regulation for corporations

Eva Joly, EU parliamentarian from the French Green Party, is tipped to be the Presidential candidate of the Greens in the 2012 French …

World Bank gets jittery

As bank gears up for competition, it may further dilute environmental safeguard policies

Cursory look at science-development links

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"The DANGER to FORESTS is not over"

The subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCCC) met from June 2-12 1998 in Bonn, Germany. A good …

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The idea of a clean city

could well become a myth by 2007. More than half of the world' s population by then would be urban dwelling. The urban ecological footprint would …

Escape clause inserted

Although claiming otherwise, Bush's new plan leaves enough room for the US to raise its emission of greenhouse gases

Prescription for relief

Smaller households=Greater consumption

Unclean process

CDM entity has poor record

Science against poverty

Book: Carbon Colonisation, the Carbon Neutral Myth

Report>>Carbon colonisation, The Carbon Neutral Myth Offset Indulgences for your Climate Sins by Carbon Watch Transnational Institute, …

"Emissions targets a must for developing countries"

According to report

EU proposes

'We cannot sell the idea of equity back home,' says US negotiator

US says no to equitable division of atmospheric space

The tax trick

Will elimination of tariff on environmental goods open up markets for industrialised nations?

The Future is Now

In 1992, the world moved several steps towards globalisation. But little attention was paid to the sharp economic, social and cultural divides. …

A vital book

...says the President of India while receiving CSE's first report on global environmental negotiations

Three-in-one offer

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Age of dinosaurs

The greatest threat to cleaner, new age technologies is from fossil fools

Japan acts on Kyoto pledge

Gets clean air credits by undertaking energy projects in Kazakhstan

ADB officials quit protesting policies