The need to be sure
The insurance market can become an invaluable weapon to protect the environment against errant industrial units
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Chipping away
Time was, when the Saranda forest cover was so dense that even the sun s rays couldn t penetrate it. Ironically, denudation has driven the region from darkness unto light. And tribal communities are being made the scapegoats
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World Bank's friendship with corporate sector
Every year, the World Bank channels about US $18-20 billion to developing countries in the form of loans and grants with the ostensible aim of reducing poverty and promoting economic growth. The bank
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The Element of Doubt About Jairam Ramesh
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Wielding the green whip
Mexico can't sell its "dolphin unfriendly" tuna to USA. Japan faces punishment for exporting jewellery made of hawksbill sea turtle shell. Malaysia is penalised for exporting rainforest wood. All over the world, green trade wars are raging. But trade ban
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Poor pay for ecological neglect
Droughts seem to be here to stay. Wrong development policies, governmental indifference and relief schemes which don't work have led to a situation where a large part of the nation faces scarcity despite a year of almost normal rainfall
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Statehood first, ecology later
Jharkhand"s leaders have successfully pressurised the Centre to consider granting autonomy to this region. But they have still not addressed themselves to local ecological problems
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Copper unit comes a cropper
Sterlite Industries' proposed copper smelting unit and jetty are a threat to the well being of the people of Ratnagiri. A recent report on the unit supports the people's protest
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Can business be responsible
Call it paranoia or plain silliness. But it is amazing. The Centre for Science and Environment cse has been studying gas pricing in the country to assess how environmentally acceptable fuels can be
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Carpet industry in UP faces boycott threat
Foreign buyers of Indian carpets insist that if child weavers are employed, they will not accept the product. The Indian government and manufacturers must now find a way out to protect a multi crore industry.
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Winds of changes
Indian industrialists and scientists want the country"s property rights to be "strengthened", but the powerful drugs industry wants to maintain the status quo
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THE INDUSTRIAL TOWNS
LUDHIANA Ludhiana"s problem is that of plenty. This industrial town has a per capita income of Rs 30,000, almost 30 times more the per capita income of the state of Bihar which is only Rs 1,067.
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The past catches up with the present
A custom of community forest protection, started in 1832 by the Raja of Alwar, is making a comeback
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The never green Gowda
The Prime Minister of India, in a rush to roll on the wheel of development, projects himself as an arrogant autocrat. His disregard for all things environmental has invited scathing criticism
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Quarrying for trouble
<font color=red><b>Controversy over Himachal limestone mining</b></font><br><br> The subject of limestone mining in ecologically fragile Himachal Pradesh has become a political football, with plans changing as governments change. Villagers are divided on
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No plutonium to go on
But government says full steam ahead
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Recycled rows
The recently concluded third conference on the Basel Convention in Geneva pledge to rid the agreement's ambiguties
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Why don't we set our own house in order first?
The state uses all the right words. But its actions don't match its rhetoric, unfortunately
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Coating Autonomy With Colonialism
In the year of UNCED, the green movement continued to take tosses in the global context. The perception of the environmental crisis as mainly being a failure of technology and management was only one obstacle. Even more disastrous, UNCED paved the way for
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Mere plans
Government proposes. Industry disposes. Programmes for cleaning up have very largely gone by the wayside