On global issues Kamal Nath was prepared to take positions unpalatable to his bureaucrats and worked closely with CSE. But he was not willing to go far on national issues, especially on the crucial one of participatory natural resource management
This is a unique year for India s environmental movement. It marks the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy. It is also the 30th anniversary of the Chipko movement: women of the Himalaya hugged
<p>Three negotiation related documents that I have been sitting on, which need to be put on public record, are:</p>
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JOINT implementation was the main point of discussion at the recent meeting of the intergovernmental committee on climate change in Geneva. The idea of joint implementation has been promoted
A non conventional energy complex set up in Brahampur village lies in a shambles today because authorities disregarded the people's requirements
ONE OF Bangladesh"s leading environmental NGOs, the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), has taken the lead in rectifying a major lacuna in the Rio agenda. Dealing with poverty should have
THERE is more to health policy than just policy for the health sector. But the World Development Report 1993 clearly shows the mandarins -- read health experts -- of the World Bank have trivialised
The Union government's ineptness in dealing with technology finds a new victim: Delhi's metro rail project
Development policies based on Gandhian philosophy, rather than consumerism, are the best bet for tackling current environmental and development problems
The slums in the capital city will keep on growing unless the villages around it are allowed to prosper.
Volcanic explosions don't only throw up a lot of dust and kill thousands of people. Even two years after a flare up, weather patterns in distant places can be affected.
MORE than 70 new chemicals are registered every hour in the US alone. The public - battered and bemused by daily press reports about the dangers of smoking, pesticides, pollution and food
Conservation area projects in Nepal prove that people and protected areas need not be mutually exclusive
The concept of family planning control dates back to the ancient Greeks. Though many scientific advances have been made in the field since then, a solution to the global population crisis is still not in sight.
Infectious diseases are still the largest cause of death in the world and tuberculosis remains the leader.
A programme implemented in central Kerala shows how an illness can be controlled if the community is involved.
The Netherlands position as an agricultural superpower stands threatened unless it shifts to eco friendlier organic cultivation
