Plastic pollution threatens tourism dependent Bali

While more than 80 per cent of the Indonesian Island’s economy relies on tourism, its beaches and the water are strewn with plastic

Can India’s G20 Presidency tackle climate change while ensuring energy access, security & transition?

The G20 Presidency can also help India fulfill OSOWOG mandate & SDG 7 goal

Bali’s Mt Agung erupts again, grounding 450 flights

At least 75,000 passengers globally have been affected in the latest eruption

The hockey-stick curve

The problem of and solutions to climate change. The imperatives of transition on the eve of the Bali meet  

Water scarcity threatening shared prosperity; worsened by population growth, urbanisation & climate change: World Bank

New report released at 10th World Water Forum underlines role of water in prosperity

Mercury pollution: Parties to Minamata Convention discuss non-binding declaration but can it help

United Nations, Indonesia call for support from parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury

Was India truly the party pooper at WTO?

Last year, when commerce minister of UPA government had agreed to the trade facilitation pact pushed by developed countries, it was perceived as …

Saltwater crocodiles are slowly returning to Bali and Java. Can we learn to live alongside them?

Historically, crocodiles lived throughout the Indonesian archipelago but were killed off in Bali, Lombok and Java 

Global civil society organisations support India’s stand at WTO

Support comes just before WTO’s Nairobi meet in December 

WTO Ministerial Conference: India objects to agriculture draft text

India believes that some members are pushing for an accelerated phasing out of agriculture export subsidy

UN climate negotiations: an overview

The North and South is still divided as the world inches closer to the deadline for hammering out a new climate deal in Paris in 2015

Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2022: Challenges in building resilience & way forward

Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 held in Bali in May 2022 offered solutions

India-US reach agreement on WTO

Commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman says US now supports India’s concerns on food security

‘Unhappy’ India might not block WTO protocol

But wants talks on food security to progress at the same pace as trade facilitation

'Developing countries are treated in a very unfair manner'

Bernarditas Muller, a seasoned member of the Philippines negotiating team, is among the rare few who call a spade a spade. Speaking to Indrajit …

Bonn sees some progress; Durban Platform agenda adopted

Negotiations on Kyoto Protocol and Long-term Cooperative Action conclude

Developing countries unanimously reject LCA text

None of developing countries' concerns reflected in the negotiating text; closure of LCA in Doha looks difficult

Durban action plan talks get stalled

Parties disagree over ambition on climate action

Dangers ahead at WTO

The trade facilitation agreement paves the way for fresh pressures on developing countries such as tariff cuts on industrial products

Doha climate talks: rich nations push for dropping disputed matters

No progress on the Durban Platform to be allowed unless elements from long-term cooperative action incorporated in negotiating process, say …

India shakes up WTO

The fracas over India's refusal to meet the deadline on trade facilitation exposes rich nations' double standards

Message from Bonn: Drop Bali agenda

Disagreements begin; parties to discuss informally to adopt long-term cooperation agenda

The Bali myth of $1 trillion trade gains

Trade facilitation is a major imposition on developing countries with little likelihood of promised benefits

Push to strengthen Basel Convention regional centres

Centres in turn will assist in ratifying ban on toxic exports from rich nations to the poor