Trading the environment

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

Plastic-free planet: Evolution of Global Plastics Treaty

UNEP gathered in Paris ahead of the INC-2 that can set the stage for negotiatons on the treaty

Scientists project path of radiation plume from Japan's nuclear reactors

Pops out

The POPs treaty

A historical chance to get rid of some of the most toxic substances known to humans

More than 200 scientists from 19 countries want to tell us the Southern Ocean is in trouble

Annual extent of winter sea ice has stopped increasing and now we have had two years of record lows

Sublimating climate change

Geopolitics

By another name?

More like a ritual

So much for scope and research scale

One hot day in June

India woke up to a phone call

"The ice"

That's what Antarctica is called

Taking the US to democracy

The cold rush

What has India got to show after 20 years on the Antarctica research bandwagon? Lack of focus

Cancun redux

Reflecting upon the fifth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization at Cancun, a Down To Earth editorial (see: "How not to lose …

ACCORDS SIGNED

Kishanganga dam: court at The Hague seeks details of its environmental impact

Final judgement deferred as India, Pakistan fail to submit details of environment flows and impacts of their hydropower projects

Pact politics

High political drama marks climate negotiations as the European Union strives to ratify the Kyoto protocol without the US, world's biggest polluter

Playing safe

Nations finally draft a treaty to combat the use of toxic chemicals like DDT and PCBs, which are known for their damning health effects

Montreal Protocol: A successful treaty?

Even as the fate of HFCs hangs in uncertainty, there remains much at stake for the Montreal Protocol

India granted 'observer' status in Arctic Council

Public health over profits

Can green mean free?

Fair farming

The European Union buckles under the pressure of the developing countries to reduce agricultural subsidies

Trade truce

It was neither a victory for the North nor a defeat for the South. Environment took centrestage as the main bargaining chip, but the discussions …

Taxation and inequality: expectations from Union Budget 2013-14

It is imperative that the forthcoming Budget recognises that fair taxation policies are at the core of addressing inequality in the country