Undue haste

US hard-sells environmental goods at WTO meeting

Trade vs environment

Nine years since the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was created, the environmental impacts of trade liberalisation in the region …

Gore goes green

Many environmentalists doubt Al Gore's green concerns

Biodiversity or Biotrade?

Competing goals of free trade and environmental protection puts the much-awaited Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety indefinitely on hold

Promoting desertification

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UNITED NATIONS

Greening WTO

Delegates from 130 countries debate linkages between trade and environment

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

Trade tactics

Imposing environmental trade sanctions on the South will not help, note experts

Dirty business

Breathing in WTO's world

New Chinese rule for wildlife

Modified treaty

The Biosafety Protocol has finally been adopted in the hope that it will bring some transparency into the trade in genetically-modified products. …

Beware of Policymakers

PEOPLE, PLANTS AND PATENTS: THE IMPACT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ON BIODIVERSITY, CONSERVATION, TRADE AND RURAL SOCIETY·Crucible group&…

Bush, Putin on nuclear energy consolidation drive

China biggest polluter, says Dutch study

Death Inside The Factory Gates

Asbestos makes homes, but it also causes cancer. The "indestructible" substance is increasingly being cast aside by developed countries,…

Pak loses $30 million after EU ban on export of seafood

USA's e-waste reincarnates as Chinese gold

Trading the environment

What's on the agenda of WTO's Trade and Environment Committee

Green politics

Is your government signing away your future rights to the world's natural resources?

International pressure and the civil society

US plan to settle WTO disputes

MAIght of OECD

A no-holds-barred treaty on investments would hand over the world on a platter to MNCs