We need global regulation for corporations

Eva Joly, EU parliamentarian from the French Green Party, is tipped to be the Presidential candidate of the Greens in the 2012 French …

A vital book

...says the President of India while receiving CSE's first report on global environmental negotiations

Devil quotes the scriptures

The absence of a clear position on the transfer of nuclear energy technology under the clean development mechanism amounts to doublespeak

A watery affair

The real issues of global water management took a backseat as crisis-mongering and anti-dam protests hijacked the Second World Water Forum at …

All about agreements

THE IMPLEMENTATION AND EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENTS, THEORY AND PRACTICE·Edited by DG Victor, K Raustiala and …

Remembering Anil Agarwal: Cold truths of global warming

Today is the death anniversary of Anil Agarwal, the founder of Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth. On June 30, 1998, he wrote …

When laws make out laws

Everybody's a loser. Forest guards die for laws that cannot be defended. Poor people get exploited. Veerappan rules the jungle. Sandalwood trees …

Playing with facts

An affidavit filed in the Supreme Court by the Indian automaker TELCO suggests a misinterpretation of the WHO's views on air pollution. The …

Climatic loophole

Sinks can now be potentially identified as the most dangerous loophole for the environmental integrity of the Kyoto Protocol

Wishful thinking

The finance minister's budget speech has come and gone. As analysts sit down to shred it to bits, Down To Earth looks at a wish list of …

First birthday

Although setting up of the EPA did result in policies to control pollution, political interference has blunted its effectiveness

Battling climate change

Technologies exist to arrest global warming. But the political will to implement them is missing

In Parliament on July 19, 2016

Here’s a round-up of environmental and developmental issues that were discussed and debated in both houses of parliament

Map shows India at top of climate violence

Conflicts related to water management appear highest in India with 59 cases, followed by conflicts in fossil fuels and climate justice

Will he beat around the bush?

He may not have a clean environmental track record. But as president, George W Bush will have to tread carefully

Talking in riddles

A recent protocol on compensation to victims of hazardous waste permits the generators to go scot-free

Climate logjam

After wrecking the climate talks in the Hague, the US-led coalition refuses to participate in further negotiations in Oslo

Food safety

In the wake of genetically-modified food flooding the Indian markets, 25 farmers' groups call for a 10-year moratorium on such food

Book review: Profound primer

Providing a good text is the primary step, now that environmental studies have become a scheduled subject at the graduate level in all …

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 …

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (June 22-27, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal through the …

How important are climate issues in South African elections

When climate adaptation is not the mainstream political agenda, driving the South Africa’s National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy will …

This UN report shows green laws remain in books

Poor implementation of environmental laws is now a global problem, says the report that demystifies the reasons behind the failure

Forget castes and politics, let’s focus on our rights and space: citizens of Karnataka

Several citizen groups in the state, which is going to polls this year, have drafted manifestos and asked political parties to include them in theirs

Status quo

Political cooperation at multilateral organisations for the preservation of international peace and security will continue to be biased heavily …