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

UN projects food inflation to go up in 2024 due to El Nino, rising geopolitical tensions

May impact food insecurity, poverty; scaling up climate financing critical to help developing countries cope with climate impact

Another Alang in the making

Andhra Pradesh is in choppy waters over a proposed ship breaking yard at Vodarevu

WTO: a mock battle

Hungry for research

Child starvation could increase unless research is improved

309,000 infants die on first day

India tops global list of first day deaths of infants; chronic malnourishment blamed

Bring farmers to farms

GI woe

Geographical indication debate intensifies as EU ups the ante

Bad faith?

The state of regulation

Techno tracks

Emerging scenarios, new dilemmas

No Need

Requirement doesn't drive immunisation

Off Beat

Tinkering, not marking the great leap

FAO report blames developing nations for deforestation

US not keen to trade freely

Pre-COVID-19 debt crisis has aggravated in poorest countries after pandemic: World Bank

G20 members not keen to extend COVID-19 debt relief for poorest countries

Tax the wealthy: 2 billion people can be lifted from poverty by levying the super-rich, says Oxfam

Gap between the rich and the poor broadened over the past two years

The Kyoto Compromise

Nitrogen threatens biodiversity

Atmospheric levels damagingly high in developing world

US won't backtrack on climate commitments, says John Kerry at Marrakech

The US has suffered climate-related losses worth $27 billion this year so far