A biopiracy coup

Can the recent convention on biodiversity be called that?

Solar power in Asia

The Philippines will get a solar power plant with the largest ever capacity in southeast Asia by 2002

Negotiations on biological resources inch forward

The conservation and sustainable management of biological resources was high on the international agenda in February 2004. Representatives of …

Modified by climate

Global warming has resulted in genetic alternations among living beings

Melting to extinction

Biodiversity in the UK threatened due to climate changes

All gas

Negotiations over the past four years have diluted the already weak Kyoto Protocol signed in 1997.

Green business

The EU proposes to start emissions trading in 2005

Deal or No Deal

Governments are scheduled to meet in Marrakech later this month to further the Kyoto process, designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in …

Protecting turtles

MoU to safeguard the dwindling number of turtles on the anvil in India

Offshoot that matters

But Indian communities may lose out due to lack of official preparedness

COVID-19 vaccine weekly: Sharing doses tops the G7 agenda

Nepal has seen a surge in cases but has only vaccinated 2.5% of its population; Peru has the highest COVID-19 death rate per head of …

China does more than the US

Even as China reduces carbon dioxide emissions by reducing coal use, US policy encourages the dirty fuel

Green Future

The present phase of climate change talks ends with consensus on ways to implement the Kyoto Protocol

First casualty

Rising sea levels force Tuvaluans to find new homes

Pact Politics

High political drama marks climate negotiations as the European Union strives to enforce the Kyoto protocol without the US. The South could play …

Earth Matters

Will the North decide the path of sustainable development for the rest of the world? Will the interests of the South be protected?

Carbon on sale

US organisations to begin trade in carbon dioxide emissions

The theory sinks

Two new studies quash industrialised countries hopes of meeting most of their Kyoto commitments by using carbon sinks

The logjam continues

George W. Bush gets a hostile reaction from the European Union on his stubborn stand regarding the Kyoto Protocol

Fixing cheap carbon

Genetically improved plants in Vietnam to help Australia meet its Kyoto target as cheaply as possible

Battling Climate Change

Technologies exist to arrest global warming. But the political will toimplement them is missing

Deep Impact shallow response

Climate change will trigger a series of ecological and economic fall-outs for India. Though details remain fuzzy largely due to the apathy of …

Americans not very different from their president

The US citizens are more concerned with cost than action to arrest climate change

Compromise on climate

Nation manages to resuscitate the Kyoto Protocol by a watered-down agreement

Climate Logjam

After wrecking the climate talks in The Hague, the US-led coalition refuses to participate in further negotiations in Oslo