Will Robert Zoellick make a better World Bank president?
Even as uproar over Paul Wolfowitz' conduct as the World Bank (wb) president is subsiding, the us's nominee for the next president is causing familiar controversy. us President George W Bush
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Tribals continue to be robbed of land in Erode
On August 28, senior police officers and forest department personnel of two contiguous districts in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka held a joint meeting to combat the growing Naxal presence in forest areas.
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The Paris summit: Universality and diversity
<p align="center"><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>A framework for updating the Climate Treaty</strong></span></p> <p align="center"><em>MukulSanwal<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><strong> [1]</strong></a></em></p>
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Timber death
Economic factors have contributed to the untimely demise of Vietnam s forests
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The poverty of policy
It is often said that the next war in the world will be fought over water. I do not know if this prophecy will come true. But I do know that skirmishes and even full fledged battles over water are
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Weaving a common destiny
The weavers of Kabir Basti had just two resources: wool and their own talent. With this they transformed their lives
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Crisis in Krishna
Forest tracts in Andhra Pradesh are being aggressively encroached upon under the umbrella of political debauchery and official nepotism
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Four Engineers and A manager
We are at the gateway of the Indian Thar desert. Domes dot the sandy fields of the village of Lahsedi in district Churu, Rajasthan. At the edge of each dome are little holes, surrounded by a clean
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Disastrous state
F<font class="UCASE">or</font> more than a decade now, Orissa has been reeling under contrasting extreme weather conditions: from heat waves to cyclones; from droughts to floods. Calamities have been visiting the state with alarming regularity.
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Shall we tell the President
that he is absolutely right. The responsibility of environmental protection must be borne by both government and civil society <br>
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India and climate change
Today the west knows that it has to take action on climate change, thanks to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ipcc) and the Stern report. However, encouraged by the Stern report, it
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A critical appraisal
IN A severe indictment of the government's economic policies, the Planning Commission has observed that capital expenditure on infrastructure and social sector have suffered most in the quest for
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In short
up environment policy: Voicing concerns over rising pollution levels, the Uttar Pradesh Government is formulating a new environment policy, as per Supreme Court recommendations. This is to be
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The god of ecological things
It was the mid 1980s. Environmentalist Anil Agarwal was on a mission: track down the person who had conceptualized the employment guarantee scheme in Maharashtra. His search I tagged along led him to
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Budgetary provisions are export oriented
The budget seeks to encourage technological change in India, especially in export-oriented industries, and to obtain private funding for government R&D institutes.
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Post-Rio progress
Is there a worldwide trend of sustained growth towards sustainable development?
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Bangladesh State of Environment Report: The Monthly Overview, March, 2014
<p>With release of genetically modified Bt brinjal for commercial cultivation Bangladesh is first country in the South Asia to cultivate any genetically modified food crop. Read more in this March 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Bangladesh.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
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Furore over Zimbabwe's selection as head of UN body
Zimbabwe's election as the head of an important un environment body has generated much controversy. Francis Nhema, the country's minister of environment and tourism was nominated by Africa to head
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In the dock
Were the World Bank policies faulty?
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sponsored blight?
Another monsoon. The season of suffering in India s flood plains. And of blaming upstream people for floods. Is there an end to this