COVID-19: Global trade via shipping badly affected, says UNCTAD

Situation unlikely to improve before second or even fourth quarter of 2020

Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (February 24 – March 1, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

COSTA RICA

CITES CoP 2019: Resolution seeking closure of domestic ivory markets not adopted

30 African countries panned EU, Japan for not closing legal ivory markets

Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (June 3 - June 9)

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

Trade Unions

Tigers: dwindling fast

Gore goes green

Many environmentalists doubt Al Gore's green concerns

What is the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies that is likely to be sealed at Abu Dhabi?

Addressing overfishing and overcapacity must be the first item on the list at the WTO Ministerial Conference

Tradition of food migration bypassed

Evolution ensured people adopted new foods through generations of experiments. but in a fast globalising age, we don’t seem to have …

Fix from ground up: A $5-trillion economy target by 2025 for India is not unachievable

Prepare business strategies for districts and leverage existing government schemes to make India a global economic powerhouse

Sixth mass extinction: IPBES9 report stresses on sustainable wildlife management

Indigenous people must be involved in drawing national policies, says body

World Trade Organization steps back from the brink of irrelevance — but it’s not fixed yet

It is the first WTO treaty with environmental protection and sustainability as its objective

The challenge of manufactured consent

Protests against the Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Northeast reopens the anti-migration issue

Humans will eat 20% more fish by 2030

The increase in consumption along with wastage of fish, overfishing is likely to have huge impacts on global food security

Private sector not dependable to achieve SDGs: UNCTAD

Its contribution to developing countries’ debt increases to 139% of GDP in 2017 from 79% in 2008

India Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of April

Every Sunday Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of Indian ecology, botany and zoology. Here are all of them for April 2019

Civil society criticises Centre’s Global Wildlife Programme, doubts minister’s claims

The Global Wildlife Programme has been launched in partnership with World Bank and United Nations Development Programme to curb illegal wildlife …

Civil society asks WTO members to raise concerns about ‘lop-sided’ Nairobi agreement

Organisations write letter calling on developing member nations to raise issue at General Council meet on Wednesday

WTO takes a wrong turn for development

The US, the EU and other developed countries are expected to make a concerted push for new issues

China bans trade in rhino horns, tiger bones

The Chinese people may resent the restrictions, but the government has to crack down on trafficking in products from rhinos and tigers or else …

Biodiversity or Biotrade?

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

Modified decision

Sri Lanka delays imposing a ban on GM foodstuffs

Ecuador

Sri Lanka bans export of high-value medicinal plant