Look who's talking!

The president of the world's most polluting country blames India for global warming

Heavy on the purse?

Measuring efficiency of electric appliances fails to take off in India

Climate change now a corporate issue

Regional Trade Agreements dividing north-south trade?

Who's afraid of 2C?

Poor man’s burden

Developing countries shoulder the clean-up responsibility, yet it is not enough

Water in a sieve

Don’t confine global resources to national boundaries

All is not well: climate negotiations in a new avatar

FARM IP, ENTER WIPO

Developing countries will now have to battle IP issues related to new agricultural technologies at WIPO instead of WTO

Question of safety

The Bangkok conference on the risks of genetically modified corps advocated greater investment of public funds in bio-safety research

Ecofriendly subsidies proposed

EU plans to give more weightage to environmental and public safety norms by amending agricultural policy

Green politics

Is your government signing away your future rights to the world's natural resources?

Taste of toxicity

New study reiterates the adverse effects of chlorpyrifos pesticide

Barriers under pestle

There is an urgent need to rationalise traditional medicinal systems to stop unscrupulous use

Bitter WTO pill

India, Brazil help the North force its way at Hong Kong

Equity for all

A brush with cancer

Housepaints can increase bladder cancer rate

The anatomy of congestion

Travel today is relatively faster, and people across the world are travelling more than ever before. But at a giant cost: urban roads are choked …

Declining food imports by most vulnerable countries a cause for concern: FAO

World food import bill to touch record high, but cost-of-living pressures may persist in 2023

Debt of emerging markets & developing economies rose by 178% from 2008-2022: Report

The Global South is staring at a debt crisis, but the “Common Framework” created to provide debt relief has serious shortcomings

COP27 must be remembered as ‘Implementation COP’, says Sameh Shoukry

The developing world’s first COP since Marrakesh in 2016 must implement the ‘Paris Rulebook’  

Billionth carbon credit issued

Kyoto Protocol device marks impressive milestone, but its effectiveness remains doubtful

Beware the modified wolf

Will bureaucrats choose to throw farmers and ecology to the mercy of multinational corporations by preparing the way for cultivation of …

Cancun impact felt in Dubai

The tone and tenor of the failed Fifth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Cancun found an echo in the annual meetings of …

India compromises on WTO deal

Under pressure from the US, it accepts conditions not part of G-33 proposal