Developing countries are dumpyards for e-waste

A recent study in the US shows that by 2004, over 315 million computers will become obsolete. By 2005, for every single computer an American buys,…

Vaccine Eloquent

Universal vaccination became part of government policy in 1978. A quarter of a century since, progress has been fitful. In some parts of the …

Adaptation Gap Report 2023: Funding to developing nations declines 15% despite international pledges, rising costs

Neither domestic nor private funding sources could help bridge the adaptation finance gaps, report notes

Lost and damaged

Negotiations on loss and damage signal a weak deal

Price of food inflation

In near future the impact of high food price will show in terms of more malnourished

Noise and a sane voice

Whose CARBON hypocrisy?

Should Northern groups campaign to stop fossil fuel funding in the South?

The role ahead

They may not seem like much today, but only a fool will undermine the potential of fuel cells

Devil is in the details

A WTO meeting of ministers is hailed as a success

Starved of substance

No headway made at World Food Summit in accelerating efforts to eliminate hunger

An uphill task

Sustainability still a long way off, says Worldwatch

House warning

Smoke from cooking kills 1.6 million people annually

Costly vaccine to pre-empt cervical cancer may not find takers

IPCC report predicts bleak future

2nd coalition of the willing: bad for climate and for us

Nations to share genetic resources

Activists call the text of the agreement vague

The US and us

High road to Dubai COP28: 6th Technical Expert Dialogue on New Collective Quantified Goal held at Bonn

Quantum of new climate finance goal should be based on needs of developing countries, backed by science & tied to specific outcomes, …

Avoiding climate breakdown depends on protecting Earth’s biodiversity — can the COP15 summit deliver?

COP15 brings together parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) with a goal of negotiating this decade’s biodiversity …

Climate talks in Bonn serve a grim reminder

Negotiations at the recently concluded climate meet at Bonn were a replay of post-Bali discussions in 2007; Parties agreed to move into formal …

Death Inside The Factory Gates

Asbestos makes homes, but it also causes cancer. The "indestructible" substance is increasingly being cast aside by developed countries,…

The crossover

Fuel cells are more important to a developing country like India than developed countries. But the corporate sector is slow.

Inklings

In which we trace where the world stands with fuel cells and some clear signals of the technology to come

Hurdles

Narrow business interests and an apathetic political leadership will never allow fuel cells to take off

Focus on pledges

Accountability issue set to take centrestage at the upcoming CoP-8 (Read full article)