Busy preludes to biodiversity meet

Crucial issues such as protection of traditional knowledge, and creation of an international regime on access to genetic resources and benefit …

Victory against all odds

Power plants

All gas

Compromise on climate

Nations manage to resuscitate the Kyoto Protocol by a watered-down agreement

Polluted rivers

ARGENTINA

Dumping worries

No diesel without filter

A campaign in Germany demands particulate filters in diesel cars

Battlelines drawn

Farm trade: it's developing countries vs EU-US

Shoring up

G strings

Or, what nations do to make themselves heard, internationally

Farm trade principles

G-20 suggests parameters to cut agricultural tariffs

Painful entry for Poland into the EU

ZOE YOUNG travels through Poland to find that its farmers dread integration with the EU

Gotcha!

In short

Pak loses $30 million after EU ban on export of seafood

Plasticky!

Europe is debating a ban on PVC due to environmental and health concerns. Industry is fighting back with a high-profile campaign

Climate logjam

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

Out with asbestos!

September saw a slew of developments giving renewed impetus to the global movement against asbestos

Landfills scrapped in UK

Come 2004, 90 per cent of landfills will be shut down in the UK. The step is being taken in the wake of a recent EU directive that has clamped …

Affordable medicines row

The US pharmaceutical industry -- which has so far prevented its government from endorsing a prescription for change -- is now directly engaging …

Deadly compound

Now, even babies are being exposed to the cancer-causing dioxin

Pesticide peril

An Austrian report calls for a ban on the pesticide lindane

Battle for beef