That E word again
Most Northern groups that dominate the civil society opinion making process within the climate convention have consistently ignored Southern demands for equity
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Dirty Rich City
Hong Kong will have to pay dearly for cleaning up its dirty air
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USA may soften its stand on global warming
The US envoy to the UN has indicated Washington may tone down its opposition to steps taken to reduce emission of greenhouse gases.
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Look before you leap
Denmark has for the first time introduced a law relating to the transfer of polluting technologies to other countries
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Gone with the wind
When the wind energy sector was opened to private investors in 1993, there was a virtual boom. However, after the initial rush of activity, promoters and investors seem to be taking a breather now. The establishment of wind farms has fallen far short of t
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Speaking for the people
Rio saw the largest ever gathering of NGOs over 2,000 of them. And finally the world was forced to acknowledge that NGOs were the real voice of the people
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Steelborn
Thousands suffer in India s ship breaking yards while an unconcerned government invites more ships for scrapping
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A Brazilian Proposal
Industrialised nations have introduced a Clean Development Mechanism to meet their reduction targets. In the second part of her climate change report, NIKHAT JAMAL QAIYUM examines how these countries perverted the original Brazilian proposal to suit their
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A bean full of problems
In utter disregard of environmental and health safety norms, the Indian government has okayed a deal for import of soybean to satisfy oil extraction units
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Outrage
Ken Saro Wiwa died because he had dared to assert the Ogonis'claims to their In Nigeria, the giant wheels of progress have been leaving a veritable wasteland behi them in the course of their ingress into the home turf of the Ogonis denuding fores
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Making CETPs work
If cetps are the answer, how do we make them work? The choice of technology, however important, is not the only challenge ahead. The key is to build a much stronger framework for common waste
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Brown Olympics
a huge stockpile of lethal waste has been discovered next to the 2000 Olympics site in Sydney which is contaminated with poisonous dioxins. Greepeace, the international green group, has found
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Clean law
In a remarkable move, China passed a Renewable Energy Promotion Law on February 28, 2005, setting targets for developing renewable energy sources. China is the world's second largest emitter of
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Sperm killer?
In May of 1993 the British medical journal The Lancet published a paper by a Danish researcher that linked a global decline in sperm counts in healthy men over the past 50 years to accumulation of
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Strange but true
Existing clean up technology or treatment plants have failed to check pollution by our errant industries, especially the chlorine based units
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US biodiversity statement creates uproar
While NGOs voice their concern at USA's interpretative version of the Biodiversity Convention, Germany has indirectly extended its support.
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Passing USA's laugh test
Helping George Bush gain political mileage seemed to be the overriding concern at the recent climate convention negotiations in New York. India stood alone on the issue of apportioning global sinks
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Chlorine in nature
The US Environmental Protection Agency is likely to cut down or ban the production of chlorine and compounds containing it. However, many scientists believe that even were manufacture of
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Norway defies international ban on whaling
Norway has announced it will soon resume commercial whaling, saying it has the right to make use of its natural resources.
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No end in sight
THE disused Brent Spar oil storage platform, whose possible disposal at sea caused a major storm last summer, has yet to find a resting place. Shell, its owner, has now come up with a plan which