Nature is being renamed 'natural capital' – but is it really the planet that will profit?

Nature conservation is becoming another way to make money

Reworking informal businesses

In countries like India, informal business is the existing order of the day

Jharkhand to share mining profit

State to give 80 per cent of sand mine auction profit to panchayats

A model arrangement

Greenbucks

COP15: Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework adopted

Countries have their work cut out till 2030

Trouble in Mexico

Mayans may lose traditional knowledge to a Us-funded project

Cry neem

There is more to neem than fighting a patent

The need for the public sector

For services the marginalised need

Builder of bridges across troubled waters

Mine owners, loosen purse strings

New mining bill proposes sharing 26 per cent profits with affected people

A bill for biodiversity

CoP-11 has an urgent agenda: to look for money to fund new targets

Slow to share

Biodiversity convention makes tardy progress

Lip service

Bullets are not the answer to development

Beyond techno fixes

Vulnerable people can be agents of change, not mere recipients of assistance

Meeting in vain

The fifth conference on biological diversity held recently in Nairobi ended on a flat note

Another board

Bail industry out

How women seized NREGA

Patches of green

Even after 10 years, the joint forest management programme has made little headway

Two in bush is better

Poachers cross the line, protect birds

Staying legal, staying reasonable

A law can be effective only if it's reasonable

Missing the grass for the trees

Overprotection of grasslands in India is leading to its decline

Bill Or Bull?

Why is India pushing for the enactment of a bill that does not protect agriculture?