Talking in riddles

A recent protocol on compensation to victims of hazardous waste permits the generators to go scot-free

Run-up to Ottawa: New study shows how global plastic waste trade evolved recently & ways for responsible management

A most significant shift in global plastic waste trade landscape has been the decline in exports to China & Hong Kong

Regulations on shisham trade hit rosewood artisans

The reason for the dip, claims India, is the decision to include the entire Dalbergia genus under Appendix II of CITES

How do lethal PFA chemicals enter your body? (Hint: look in the kitchen)

The hazardous chemical PFA, generally found in non-stick cookware, is still unregulated in India

Climate change threatens the rights of children. The UN just outlined the obligations states have to protect them

Indigenous children, their communities particularly vulnerable to climate change  

Lateral Thoughts: Where is the money for biodiversity? 

The amendments have reduced the scope of access and benefit sharing and new thinking is needed ensure that communities are not sidelined 

Can Montreal help communities: DTE’s coverage on access and benefit-sharing in the run-up to COP15

Benefits arising from the use of biodiversity have not been shared equitably with communities who have protected it for centuries

Ivory Coast declares first Ebola outbreak in 26 years; 3rd African country to do so in 2021

Great concern that outbreak declared in capital city Abidjan, a metropolis of more than 4 million people: WHO 

Karnataka’s Pavagada shows a way amid criticism for solar power at UNCCD COP14

Solar most land-hungry among green power sources, claims report released at Delhi event to fight desertification

Only positive intervention can undo losses humans have caused to Earth: Javadekar

India's environment minister calls for a ‘Delhi Declaration’ at the end of UNCCD CoP14

Zimbabwe’s gold rush leaves small-scale miners vulnerable to mercury poisoning

The highly toxic substance used to extract gold from ore leads to a number of complications

Southerners win the Rio round

For many southern groups, the greater cause at Rio was to align with their governments against the West's "green imperialism"

UN report warns of effects of urban expansion on biodiversity

Urban areas set to triple by 2030; population to touch 4.9 billion

Trading the environment

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

Water in a sieve

Don’t confine global resources to national boundaries

Breach of trust

The world’s premier rice research institute tilts towards intellectual property rights

Environet

This column will bring you an update on various groups and individuals working in fields related to environment, development and the sciences. …

Green signals from cellphone companies

Manufacturers sign declaration at the Sixth Conference of Parties (CoP-6) to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of …

Green politics

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

'Plastics should be classified as hazardous'

Current rate of production may add 33 billion tonnes of plastic by 2050; classification can help reduce this amount to four billion tonnes, says …

Bonn Climate Conference 2024: 3rd Glasgow dialogue flags need for loss & damage cooperation

Global South voices lead call for clearer coordination, stronger mechanisms  

Only Ramsar site in Bihar neglected and on verge of drying up

Bird hunting, land acquisition threaten Kawar lake even as state government proposes other sites for declaration

World Wetlands Day 2022: What is the significance of wetlands in the climate change era

If we protect wetlands, we also protect our planet and ourselves

Simply put: Green Climate Fund

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