World Bank's friendship with corporate sector

A bad example from the US

A public sector technology transfer bill focuses exclusively on patenting

'Bad science' bogey

Lobbies use the old trick

Stratagems vs strategy

Governments, industries gang up against WHO's plan

Killer disease

The world is getting fatter, sicker

Passing the carbon buck

Guardians for the future

World Future Council calls for an ombudsperson to secure the environment for future generations

The world isn't just Big Macs and Coke

How many people can the earth sustain? While the world feverishly computes the answer, it must not forget that sustainability is not just feeding …

Regreening of Japan

The Japanese have regenerated their forests twice after their large-scale destruction. But today, it is doing so at the cost of tropical forests …

Carbon discredit

Quest in vain?

How can CDM resolve the conflict between developed and developing country interests?

How US built consensus to get a deal it wanted

US machinations made everybody fall in line

Bank’s first contest

Developing countries challenge US monopoly by putting up candidates for World Bank’s presidency

Bad faith?

The state of regulation

Techno tracks

Emerging scenarios, new dilemmas

No Need

Requirement doesn't drive immunisation

Off Beat

Tinkering, not marking the great leap

Never too many pedals

Let the genes cross borders

National sovereignty over genetic resources could undermine food security

Whose CARBON hypocrisy?

Should Northern groups campaign to stop fossil fuel funding in the South?

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

The role ahead

They may not seem like much today, but only a fool will undermine the potential of fuel cells

Peta's Pet

UK-based animal welfare group People for Ethical Treatment of Animals has been campaigning against Indian leather, alleging ill-treatment of …