Moratorium on GMOS
european union ( eu ) environment ministers moved closer to a moratorium on entry of new genetically modified organisms ( gmo s) in the market, at least until new rules can be
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Beyond politics
this book is about transnational environmental activist groups. It describes their politics and analyses the strategies they employ to bring the environment to the fore front. The focal point of the
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ARGENTINA
The proposal of a German organisation to plant trees in Argentina is facing large-scale opposition from the country's environ mentalist.Prima Klima, a non-governmental organi sation, is planning
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Blackmailed loan
a loan of us $215 million will be granted to Ukraine by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Develop ment (EBRD). The loan will help Ukraine build its two nuclear power stations,
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Fuelling pollution
norway's plan to increase coal mining from Arctic Svalbard has invited the ire of environmentalists. The greens say that coal is the most polluting source of power and can wreak havoc on the
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Karma Police
http://www.karmabanque.com This site comes with a recommendation from Greenpeace Magazine that says "Karma Banque offers a radical, new protest platform on the Internet.' Here is a website
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Mexico
A coalition of environmentalists declared plans to build the world's largest salt works near a delicate whale-breeding lagoon as "illegal' and said the owners were guilty of environmental violations.
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Fruitful talks
Between NGOs, expert body on GM crops issue
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In the dumps
Despite international regulations and campaigning by environmentalists, hazardous waste continues to be dumped in India
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Going nowhere
The biosafety protocol is still a chimera
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No entry to Dutch plant
Pakistan"s environmentalists say no to dumping of obsolete and hazardous technology by the West
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Teaching the taught
Eighty lakhsmaliscalefishworkers went on a strike allover India in January 1996, to protest against the government issuing licenses to largefishing vehicles. The Food and Agricultural Organization is insisting that states and stakeholders follow a
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Killing fields
The Congress wields the butcher's knife, and environment is the casualty
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A way out for India
Indian fridge manufacturers are juggling their options for a substitute for ozone-depleting substances and some are looking at a revived technology that will no longer make them dependent on Western companies.
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'I don't expect largescale policy initiatives in the environmental sector'
JONATHAN LASH heads the Washington based World Resource Institute WRI and is the co chairperson of the Presidential Commission on Sustainable Development. Lash came to New Delhi in November 1994 to release The Second India Revisited, a WRI study exami
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Fresh spectre of nuclear anarchy
Increasing incidents of smuggling weapons grade nuclear material have explosive global ramifications
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The way of all waste
Environmentalists and developingcountries managed to stave off an attempt to sabotage the Basel Ban on international trade in hazardous substances at the fourth Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention
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A kill for life
While whales must be conserved as a rare species, hunting the marine mammals is felt necessary for maintaining ecological balance
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Dry cleaning pollutes
A domestic but prolific generator of organochlorines is the homely dry-cleaning business. Over 90 per cent of alndry-'ters use chlorine-based perchloroethylene (perc) to clean clothes. Some 3
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Sullying the seas
An oil spill pollutes 500 km of the French coast. It takes three weeks and public pressure for the guilty company to accept responsibility