The UN Convention to Combat Desertification is a non starter. Administrative and financial matters get the better of any serious attempts to deal with global desertification. Though the desert is expanding, the North is not interested
Issues concerning the earth s future took a backseat as unseemly politics ruled the day at the just concluded Earth Summit II SUPRIYA AKERKAR reports from New York
A review of the five years since Rio, Earth Summit II showed collective irresponsibility by nation states for the earth's future The special session of the UN General Assembly was
