Public–private partnerships can help achieve sustainable agricultural development goals

Public–private partnerships in agriculture have the potential to modernise the sector and provide numerous benefits to smallholder farmers

Keep us in the room, urge observers at Bonn climate summit

ADP co-chairs barred observers from attending negotiations in spin-off groups after Japan said real negotiations cannot happen in front …

Warm and convenient

Researchers are developing low-cost warmers for infants even as doctors remain divided over the efficacy of the product

Guardians for the future

World Future Council calls for an ombudsperson to secure the environment for future generations

The world isn't just Big Macs and Coke

How many people can the earth sustain? While the world feverishly computes the answer, it must not forget that sustainability is not just feeding …

Diary of a political carnival

UNCED saw the largest ever gathering of heads of government in history. Ceremony, glitter and pomp were played out against a backdrop of …

Regreening of Japan

The Japanese have regenerated their forests twice after their large-scale destruction. But today, it is doing so at the cost of tropical forests …

Bad environment makes the poor more susceptible to diseases

Since 1997, V Ramaswamy has been working in Priya Manna Basti in Howrah -- a town inhabited by railway porters -- under the Howrah pilot …

Genomics could help cure cancer

Eugene W Myers , vice president for informatics research at Celera Genomics, usa , is the brain behind computer applications used to assemble …

Kyoto in trouble

Russia may not ratify it. And even if it does, it's not going to do so anytime soon. That was the message, loud and clear, from the Russian …

Thorny issue resurfaces

At its recently concluded third session in Geneva, Switzerland, the United Nations Forum on Forests (unff) took a step towards the creation of a …

Fat Chance

Reducing obesity -- the leading cause of non-communicable diseases in the world -- has become a political game. At stake are the interests of the …

COVID-19: UNCTAD predicts $3.4 tln debt for developing countries

Income losses to exceed $220 bln in developing countries, says report 

Paris Agreement adopted, countries whimper 'hooray'

More than 190 nations agree to a historic yet compromised climate deal

Quest in vain?

How can CDM resolve the conflict between developed and developing country interests?

Alliance on emissions

Australia inks pact with the US outside the Kyoto Protocol

Exporting toxicity

Chemicals banned in the US as poison are shipped to developing nations as pesticides

Immunity divide

New vaccines against TB of little help in developing countries

Indonesia agrees to share bird flu virus samples with WHO

Inequalities keep shifting as knowledge enters market

The two-degree shift

How US built consensus to get a deal it wanted

US machinations made everybody fall in line

COP15 Montreal: ‘30x30 will create more militarised Protected Areas’

Fiore Longo, director of the French chapter of Survival International, details the disadvantages of 30x30 of the Global Diversity Framework

Conditions to aid and trade

World Resources Institute, a Washington-based non-government organisation, objects to criticism that Northern groups are arm-twisting developing …

Odisha gets GCF-approved climate change project

The project entails the construction of a groundwater recharge system, as a concrete adaptation measure to ensure water conservation