UN member states agreed on the first international treaty to protect the high seas

The UN High Seas Treaty is a framework to protect the world’s oceans by bringing them under protected areas. The treaty is designed to …

Pandemic treaty draft negotiations to begin in February 2023

Ensuring equity and solidarity, promoting preparedness while respecting sovereignty will form the crux of this document

The nuclear outrage

Missing the target

Ice-shield

POP, and we opt out

Something murky in India's ratification of two international conventions

The Grand Renaissance Dam: What’s at stake and what could break the deadlock

Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt have been negotiating for five years over the filling and annual operation of the dam. They have not been able to …

Fishing quotas to be curtailed

Sinking "straddling" fish stocks find chances of survival as an international treaty is approved to check overfishing

Tobacco control

Action plan

China inching towards POPs treaty ratification

Small is beautiful

How the Grand Renaissance Dam might spark basin-wide water cooperation

There is no doubt that the dam has become a source of serious tension among Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan

Smoke alarm

Unfair advantage

Plastic-free planet: What CSE expects from Global Plastic Treaty negotiations — the issues & politics

Second session of Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastic pollution is being held in Paris, France from May 29-June 2, 2023

Global pandemic treaty: Soumya Swaminathan promises draft in 18 months

WHO chief scientist says most countries on board for pact to ensure fair sharing of vaccines, data during future pandemics  

Chinese scrutability

Stop it!

UNITED NATIONS

The year of ecobabble

Despite numerous proclamations of eco-friendliness and a deluge of treaties, not much was done in 1993 to make fuelwood and clean water easily …

The Antarctic Treaty is turning 60. In a changed world, is it still fit for purpose?

As disputes have arisen over years, many have been addressed through expansion of treaty framework. This framework is now referred to as the …

River jordan on the other side

Their recent patch-up was heartening, but Israel's water supply to a parched Jordan is a frustrating dribble

Treaty in a snarl

Noisy vehicles through the Brenner Pass is not only threatening environment but also causing hindrance to the Transit Treaty

Rivers of discontent

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A bend in the Ganges

This is a river straining against captivity