Everybody's a Loser
The World Trade Organization's recent ministerial meet in Seattle, USA, will be remembered more for the protestors who turned the venue into a …
Forest war
Naxalism started as a movement against land alienation. Today it has become a popular movement against natural resource alienation, …
A Renewable Crisis
The last time there was a major push for renewable energy alternatives to polluting fossil fuels was in the aftermath of 1970s oil shock. And then,…
A disease called pollutionitis
Most of Delhi's urban elite suffer from this disease which makes them "rationally irrational". The disease is accompanied by finger-pointitis and …
Green hope and mockery
After a 10-year crusade, Sri Lankan environmentalists finally got what they wanted: mandatory environmental impact assessments for development …
The heat is on
There is tremendous pressure now on the South to meet the greenhouse gas emissions reduction quota of the west
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 …
Citing an international meet
Another international meet fails to address the concerns of local poor people and follows the path shown by global bullies
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, …
CSE top environment policy think tank in India; 16th in the world: Global Index
CSE is ranked above organisations such as United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in the list of top environment policy think tanks
NGT’s power at risk in the Environment Law Amendment Bill
The amendments proposed by the government may lead to a pollute and pay approach instead of preventing environmental pollution in the future
The price of power
As political parties, environmentalist banner-holders and indigenous industries cry themselves hoarse over the entry of the Cogentrix facility, …
One step back
Under pressure from the industry, the Australian government relaxes petrol and diesel emission standards
That 'E' word again
Most Northern groups that dominate the civil society opinion-making process within the climate convention have consistently ignored Southern …
Wooing the opposition
US diplomacy carries home another offering to please their Senate -- an agreement on energy and climate change with China
Shifting weight
In the weeks leading up to the Seattle meet of the WTO, both the US government and the trade organisation have been trying to appease Western greens
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 …
Green reflections
The un hopes to take a lead in environmental management. Whether it lives up to the challenge or not, is still to be seen
The truth at last
After decades of denial, Ford admits that its sport-utility vehicles cause more environmental and safety problems than cars
Who needs the greens?
Certainly not Russian President Vladimir Putin, who recently abolished the country's only environmental agency
Conditions to aid and trade
World Resources Institute objects to criticism that Northern groups are arm-twisting developing countries into reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Coming to terms with nature
Book>> Socialist Register 2007 Coming to Terms with Nature by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys The Merlin Press, London 2006 Published in India …