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Goldman sees markets as solution to global warming

Goldman Sachs Group thinks it can battle global warming, not by hugging trees, but by doing what comes naturally to a Wall Street powerhouse: trading. Goldman last month joined a growing list of
- 31/12/2005
- Business Line (New Delhi)
- - Climate Change
Usual suspects

Forget the Internet. Welcome to roadblocks on the information route
- 30/12/2005
- - Information
  - Governance
Only inaction

On JPC report on pesticide residues in beverages
- 30/12/2005
- Down To Earth
Wasteful plan

Communities in Rajasthan reject draft wasteland policy
- 30/12/2005
- Down To Earth
Dodgy doses

UNICEF in dock over vitamin A fortification programme
- 30/12/2005
- Down To Earth
- - Nutrition
  - Medical Research
  - Child Health
  - High Court
  - Governance
  - India
  - Assam
  - Rajasthan
Dam blocked

Himachal project runs into widespread protests
- 30/12/2005
- Down To Earth
Nestle scare

Contaminated baby milk products recalled in EU
- 30/12/2005
- Down To Earth
Towards better cities

Finally a plan to reform the concrete jungles
- 30/12/2005
- Down To Earth
Royalty wars

Drug inventors row over profits from avian flu
- 30/12/2005
- Down To Earth
- - WTO
  - Drugs
  - Drug Industry
  - Epidemics
  - Birds
  - Nigeria
Public pressure

Rehabilitation package for Polavaram modified
- 30/12/2005
- Down To Earth
- - Godavari
  - Dams
  - Rehabilitation
  - NGO
  - Andhra Pradesh
Surviving AIDS

HIV/AIDS drug prices in India come down
- 30/12/2005
- Down To Earth
- - Drugs
  - AIDS
  - India
High hopes

West African countries sign elephant conservation pact
- 30/12/2005
- Down To Earth
- - Elephant
  - Africa
Seven years respite for LDCs

The World Trade Organiation (wto) has extended the deadline for its 32-member Least Developed Countries (ldcs) to comply with the wto intellectual property (ip) regime until July 2013. The Trade
- 30/12/2005
Korean cloning expert quits

Hwang Woo-Suk, who cloned the first human embryo for harvesting stem cells for therapeutic use in 2004, resigned as the head of the World Stem Cell Hub, an international research body. The
- 30/12/2005
- - Medical Research
  - Genetic Cloning
Swiss bans GM for five years

A five-year temporary ban has been imposed on the use and import of genetically modified (gm) crops and plants across Switzerland. This was approved by 55.7 per cent voters in a referendum on
- 30/12/2005
- - Genetic Engineering
  - Switzerland
REACH constricted

The European Union parliament has passed an amended version of the registration, evaluation and authorisation of chemicals (reach) bill. The controversial bill has the industry against the labour
- 30/12/2005
Smuggling racket

A large scale timber-smuggling racket operating from Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu has come to light with the seizure of 180 tonnes of red sander wood by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (dri)
- 30/12/2005
South Asia

production stopped: The Canadian gas-exploration company Niko failed to receive government permission for producing gas after a blowout wrecked the Tengratila gas field. It began removing drilling
- 30/12/2005
- - Dams
  - Canada
  - Natural Gas
  - Pakistan
And you thought tissue was no issue

A World Wide Fund for Nature's (wwf) study has estimated that every day an equivalent of 270,000 trees are flushed or thrown away in the form of tissue papers. The report compared the record of the
- 30/12/2005
Humanitarian vessel confiscated

The military in Congo confiscated Ferbo I, a freight ship of the African Wildlife Foundation's (awf) on on November 12, 2005, which works for wildlife conservation and development. The ship was
- 30/12/2005
- - War
  - Africa