Pests get the better of pesticides

Smelly bargain

Developing nations insist that industrialised countries are reneging on their part of the deal in cleaning up the atmosphere

Selfish interests in the guise of altruism

Hidden feelings surface

Prevention is cheaper than cure

Too big for the Third World's pocket

Masterly exploration of the state of Earth

Earth in the Balance Al Gore Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd, London Price: £14.95

Much heat generated over energy tax proposal

The proposed energy tax has run into heavy weather in Europe, despite strong backing from Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.

The land can teach how. to use it best

North overconsumes resources, but efficiently

Friends of the Earth (FOE) in Netherlands has been fighting unsustainable lifestyles in the world's affluent societies by campaigning vigorously …

Is lebelling wood good ?

The North and South disagree on classifying logged timber.

Unequal representation

Getting scientists from developing countries to serve on the climate change panel is proving difficult.

Jumping on the biotechnology bandwagon

BIOTECHNOLOGY: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ASPECTS -- ISSUES FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Edited by E J Da Silva, C Ratledge and A Sasson Publisher: …

Third World posers for Northern donors

In the new environment-sensitive atmosphere after Rio, two Northern agencies that aid research projects in the developing world are being …

CFC phaseout timing sparks North-South row

The recent conference in Geneva, held to discuss moving up the date set for phasing out CFCs, got stuck over the question of aid to developing …

Lab-made pyrethrin will hi t Kenyan growers

A watered-down capitulation

Who should benefit from biotechnology? The South, where the genes originate, or the North, with its massive gene banks? Commercial interests …

Politics of punctuation

A comma gave rise to an argument over whether technology transfer should take place according to terms agreed upon at Rio or terms mutually …

Living longer, not better

Next time a report on people, please!

STATE OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION 1992 Publisher: UNFPA Price: Not stated

Sustainable development is an oxymoron

WOLFGANG Sachs, born in 1946 in Munich, studied theology, sociology and history and taught at the University of Berlin for several years. At the …

The Bank and the pauper

Protocol prattles

India calls for a united Southern stand to oppose the Moptreal Protocol amendment

Natural-born killers

A naturally occuring bacterium in milk can save the losses incurred by mal1scale dairy farmers who do not own refrigeration facilities

Tonnes of poison