Shades of equity

Negotiators from developing countries lack the strategy to put equity on the global climate change agenda. But the US has already begun to define …

Bring scientists out of their ivory labs

There have been many a slip between developing technology and applying it to everyday life

The poverty of Amartya Sen

Even the "sensitive" Sen has failed to understand -ecological poverty"

The prosperous are the ‘real’ polluters

Economic growth takes a toll on the environment

The new utilitarians

...of the North revel in pushing the South to the road to environmental rack and ruin

And miles to go before we meet

The North-South divide is not a fabrication: for three-fourths of the world, it is a fact of daily existence. Ignoring it will not make it …

Convenient yardstick

Despite its disproportionately large carbon emissions, the US wants proportionate restrictions on the developing countries

UNEP set to navigate a new course

The United Nations Environment Programme, which had previously advanced legal instruments to solve global environmental problems, is now …

An identity crisis for the South

The developing world needs to define what the South represents, for otherwise it risks its legitimacy as a negotiating bloc

Why are we begging for eco-clean technology?

If industrialised countries were legally barred from exporting anything considered eco-unfriendly, industries in the developing countries would …

Silent sufferers

Indifferent primary health care in developing countries could lead to mental depression taking the form of a mass illness

Green issues need equitable entitlements

Now that the Cold War is over, concern for the environment will play a vital role in international relations in the foreseeable future.

Rio has not changed the North-South equation

The UNCED deliberations have to be viewed in the context of northern attempts to maintain hegemony over the rest of the world

Did Riocentro learn anything from Flamengo park?

While heads of state deliberated on the future of the world at the Riocentro, social activists and NGOs expressed their sense of frustration …

McNamara shoots from the hip

Today's neo-Malthusians have acquired a fashionable new fig leaf: environmentalism. And Robert McNamara's recent talk in Delhi was an eloquent …

Passing USA's laugh test

Helping George Bush gain political mileage seemed to be the overriding concern at the recent climate convention negotiations in New York. India …

Green illusios

Germany is swamped in a controversy about a study which says sustainable development can be achieved only when the consumption of resources is …

Pressure on the South

The Kyoto Protocol could save the industralised North from taking action to reduce its own emissions. A cheaper and easier option is available to …

A humble beginning

Developing nations should get more actively involved with international politics on climate change. They should propose and direct negotiations, …

Banking on carbon

World Bank's proposed role in the global carbon market is good news for the US, but it may spell doom for developing countries

ABC of environment education

The North's experiences in environment education are not useful for the South

We, the consumers

Modern society is little concerned with how goods we use are produced and disposed of

Debate renewed on blame for global warming

THE 1990-91 edition of World Resources, brought out by the Washington-based World Resources Institute (WRI), concluded developing countries as a …

Southerners win the Rio round

For many southern groups, the greater cause at Rio was to align with their governments against the West's "green imperialism"

Conserving biodiversity and generosity

An offer of desi ber by a village lad came as a sharp comment on the global politics of biodiversity