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Dividing the developing countries will spell disaster for Copenhagen and future climate negotiations
Yu Qingtai, Ambassador and Special Representative, Climate Change Talks, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China
talks to Pradip Saha about developing country imperatives in climate talks in face of increasing pressure from
developed countries to increase commitments
On sudden EU attempt to divide developing countries during Accra meetÀ
I don’t know if you could call it sudden
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- 29/09/2008
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Prescription done, how about the cure?
When economic agenda governs public health, you get clichés instead of solutions
a ‘commission on social determinants of health’, set up by the World Health Organization took four years to tell us that the poor cannot expect to live 100 years as they live in the poorest physical condition and have no access to healthcare! Equity in healthcare isn’t a new idea by any means. This report is
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- 29/09/2008
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Ask no questions, just pay the water bill
Consumers have no say in the bad plans made in their name
mangalore is witnessing fights over water pricing. But beyond politicizing the issue, the protestors themselves are clueless about how the water in their city was priced. The Mangalore Municipal Corporation (mcc) says poor cost recovery is preventing it from delivering the best of services. But facts speak otherwise. An analysis of
- Date:
- 29/09/2008
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Denial of the rural
85 per cent urban population will be a disaster
A tendency has been gaining ground in some influential circles lately that India’s development is closely and necessarily linked to a path of very
rapid urbanization. Finance Minister P Chidambaram forcefully articulated this view recently (in an interview to Tehelka, May 31, 2008).
He said, “My vision of a poverty free India will be an
- Date:
- 14/09/2008
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The GM snare
Measures to test GM crops for safety leave a lot to be desired
In comments bearing direct relevance for India, Prince Charles, heir to British throne, launched a scathing attack on gm
crops, calling them the “biggest disaster of all time”. Indians should not be losing sleep over a statement of the British
monarch-in-the-making. But if one examines development on the gm front in the
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- 14/09/2008
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Sustainable solutions
BOOK >> A Community Guide to Environmental Health • Jeff Conant and Pam Fadem • Hesperian Foundation • June 2008
If you have ever felt helpless about the many environmental risks that you are exposed to each day, help is now at hand. The Community Guide to Environmental Health provides experiences from around 120 communities in 33 countries on what people could do to minimize the risk
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- 14/09/2008
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Himalayan blunder
Dam makers rake in the moolah irrespective of the amount of electricity projects generate
TWO issues back this magazine had done a detailed analysis of the wind energy sector in the country. We told you how wind turbines were being installed in increasing numbers, but performed at a dismal level and generated electricity far lesser than their potential. The policy gave incentive only to
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- 14/09/2008
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Financing emissions from jets and cows
An interview with Environmental scientist Robert Goodland , who is credited with authoring some of the Bank’s environmental safeguard policies and has helped create the World Commission on Dams. According to him, the Bank has become obsolete on sustainability issues.
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- 14/09/2008
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Future shock, this?
Prince Charles turns the heat on genetic modification
PRINCE Charles’ recent comments on genetically modified (gm) crops have kicked up a storm in uk. The heir apparent to the British throne perhaps did not bargain for so strident a backlash, especially from the Labour government, when he commented that adoption of gm farming will lead to “the biggest disaster, environmentally, of all
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- 14/09/2008
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Open to dispute
Open source just one element of computerization
Many claim that proprietary software is going out of mainstream. Open source software, which allows anyone to make a new software version (not necessarily an application programme), port it to new operating systems and share it with others, is fast becoming a potent alternative. In India, Kerala has taken to open source software with gusto. But
- Date:
- 30/08/2008
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