Anil Agarwal

The biodiversity bill has the potential of challenging the much hated formal intellectual property rights system of the TRIPs

Urban rainwater harvesting will require a strategy that has different components. We have to recognise that just passing a law is not enough

India has two problems; one, bureaucrats and their complicated procedures and two, politicians who do not understand bureaucrats and their complicated procedures

Pressures on wto from the environmental lobbies of the North have grown and the organisation has more or less caved in completely

Given the state dominated water supply systems, little effort has been made to get rural communities to develop and manage their own water supply systems

At the end of day, the biggest
problem is the lack of public pressure.
Indian people think very little about
their health till they fall ill

Research is often like an iceberg. The public interest can just be the visible tip with the invisible bulk being the private interest

Why doesn t Naik simply say: What does it matter if a million or more die because of air pollution?

Organisations are not looking for
solutions to the air pollution problem,
they are looking for problems in the
CNG solution

The Kyoto compromise will cost the world and us a whole lot more than a new set of clothes for the emperor