The fate of our planet depends on the next few days of complex diplomacy in Glasgow. Here’s what needs to go right
Progress in the UN climate talks, both at CoP26 and beyond, may involve a “grand bargain” encompassing new promises on climate …
Under the microscope: Funding for NAMAs
Developing countries appear to have made a significant concession on funding for mitigation actions
Hypertension affects 1.13 billion people globally; 199 million reside in India
The burden of high blood pressure witnessed a dip in high and middle-income countries but low-income countries experienced a surge
How agriculture can be intensified in Africa without causing harm
Sustainable agriculture in Africa has the ability to act as an example for other regions worldwide. But to do this the approaches and technology …
A shot in the arm for abandoned vaccine trials
With HIV spreading fast in some Third World nations, these countries have decided to end months of uncertainity by opting for vaccine trials …
Beating about the bush
Many important issues were hardly touched upon at the recently concluded conference on bioresources
Smokescreen
The most powerful government in the world and the behemoth tobacco industry are waging a ding-dong battle over...well, cigarettes
North rejects India's plea
India's request for a $2 billion grant to cut down the use of ozone-depleting substances was turned down because Northern countries felt it was …
Special status for India in global village
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES - STRATEGIES FOR THE 1990s Publisher: UNESCO Price: French francs 40
No money for labs in antibiotics research
Though increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics is making it difficult to treat diseases such as malaria, pharmaceutical companies do not …
Green issues need equitable entitlements
Now that the Cold War is over, concern for the environment will play a vital role in international relations in the foreseeable future.
Beijing makes all-out bid to join GATT in '93
Despite indications that it may take longer, China is doggedly pursuing its goal of becoming a GATT member this year.
TB threat as acute as AIDS
Infectious diseases are still the largest cause of death in the world and tuberculosis remains the leader.
Being accountable
The reluctance of financial institutions to be made answerable will stymie progress on implementing the Earth Summit agreentents.
Behavioural changes is the way to curb AIDS
Doctors and social workers advocate awareness as the best way to prevent AIDS, a disease that has no vaccine or cure, from spreading.
North - South tussle over SDC
The proposal for setting up a Commission for Sustainable Development, considered one of Rio's successes, is already caught in a dispute over size,…
AIDS increases TB death risk
People infected with the AIDS virus are more susceptible to tuberculosis, and this further reduces their chances of survival.
Energy analysis uncovers interesting trends
WORLD ENERGY: BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE Lee Schipper et al Publisher: Stockholm Environment Institute Price: Not stated
Technology and the public sector
FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY IN PUBLIC ENTERPRISES Sunil Mani Publisher : Oxford & IBH Publishing Co Pvt Ltd, Delhi Price : Rs 250
Rio has not changed the North-South equation
The UNCED deliberations have to be viewed in the context of northern attempts to maintain hegemony over the rest of the world
Did Riocentro learn anything from Flamengo park?
While heads of state deliberated on the future of the world at the Riocentro, social activists and NGOs expressed their sense of frustration …
Forests of global contention
The South's determined efforts to scuttle the forest convention that the North was adamant on pushing through was a major triumph. A blow-by-…
McNamara shoots from the hip
Today's neo-Malthusians have acquired a fashionable new fig leaf: environmentalism. And Robert McNamara's recent talk in Delhi was an eloquent …
Passing USA's laugh test
Helping George Bush gain political mileage seemed to be the overriding concern at the recent climate convention negotiations in New York. India …
Developmental dilemmas
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN POOR COUNTRIES - NEGLECTED ISSUES Edited by Kartik C Roy and Cal Clark Oxford University Press Rs 290