A second term for Bush
It shows that the environment is no more an issue for electorates in the North
Green hope and mockery
After a 10-year crusade, Sri Lankan environmentalists finally got what they wanted: mandatory environmental impact assessments for development …
Killing fields
The Congress wields the butcher's knife, and environment is the casualty
Ethics dumped
The world over, the pockets where the poor live are used as environmental dumps. PAUL WAPNER debates the environmental ethics of International …
Greens scream blue murder
Environmentalists and Democrats in America gear up to tackle the Republican "onslaught" on landmark protection laws
Hot air?
Agenda 21, formulated during the Rio Summit in June 1992, was touted as an earth-saving measure by the leaders of more than 100 participatory …
Protest damned
The first tremors of ego clashes have rattled the anti-Tehri dam movement
THE GREEN CRUSADE
Over a year has passed since Germany's Green party came to power in 1998 by joining hands with their allies, the Social Democrats. Looking back, …
The price of power
As political parties, environmentalist banner-holders and indigenous industries cry themselves hoarse over the entry of the Cogentrix facility, …
Bonn and beyond
The climate change meeting at Bonn tentatively agreed to postpone resolution of issues
Terms of un-endearment
What should be the new terms of engagement?
Shadowy presence
A haze of pollutants, the size of the US, covers a part of the Indian Ocean sky creating fears of acid rain, low rainfall and a change in …
For the love of air
International experts meet to develop a blueprint for future action to improve air quality in Delhi
A watery affair
The real issues of global water management took a backseat as crisis-mongering and anti-dam protests hijacked the Second World Water Forum at …
Playing with facts
An affidavit filed in the Supreme Court by the Indian automaker TELCO suggests a misinterpretation of the WHO's views on air pollution. The …
Battling climate change
Technologies exist to arrest global warming. But the political will to implement them is missing
Talking in riddles
A recent protocol on compensation to victims of hazardous waste permits the generators to go scot-free
Green politics
Is your government signing away your future rights to the world's natural resources?
Strangers in their own land
The final notification of the Great Himalayan National Park has jeopardised the livelihood of a tribe of migratory pastoralists. It has also …
Whose responsibility is it anyway?
Two years after the Supreme Court directed the setting up of two independent fuel testing centres in Delhi, one is yet to be commissioned
Failing to come clean
It is unclear whether the Indian government supports the transfer of nuclear energy technology under the climate convention's Kyoto Protocol
Battle for turf
If the South wants to protect its interests against the power of the Bretton Woods institutions and WTO, it will need its own, equally powerful forum
Polluter says' principle
GEF should have been a liability fund, rather than a 'guilt fund' set up by the North to make up for the global damage it had caused
MAIght of OECD
A no-holds-barred treaty on investments would hand over the world on a platter to MNCs
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