Global Electricity Review 2025
<p>In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking
European Union (EU)
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What caused Europe's heatwave?
The intense heatwave that baked much of Europe for weeks has convinced many people about the changing climate
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UNEP non science
Politics hinders process to make the apex body scientifically sound
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Bullied into inaction
In what conservationists label a huge "scandal', eu members have bagged major concessions in fishing quotas proposed recently by the eu executive (see Down To Earth,
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Farm trade principles
G-20 suggests parameters to cut agricultural tariffs
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Subsidised talk
An EU non proposal on agri subsidies
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Cancun redux
Reflecting upon the fifth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization at Cancun, a Down To Earth editorial see: <a href="editor.asp?foldername=20031015&filename=Editor&sec_id=2&sid=1"><font color=red>"How not to lose all"</font></a>, October 1
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Trouble s back door entry
Eu members recently agreed over eu fisheries commissioner Joe Borg's proposal to send fishing boats to tsunami-affected Asian countries. But experts warn that instead of having a positive effect,
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EU ministers clash on GMOs Again
European Union (eu) farm ministers once again revealed their long-standing rift over genetically modified ( gm ) food. At a recent meet in Luxembourg, proposals to approve new gm imports and to
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Busy preludes to biodiversity meet
Crucial issues such as protection of traditional knowledge, and creation of an international regime on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing were taken up by two working groups of the Convention on Biological Diversity CBD in December. The bod
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EC stops import of US long grain rice
Following the us government's announcement that an illegal and untested genetically modified strain had contaminated its conventional long-grain rice, the European Commission has stopped its