Simply Put: The global Stockholm syndrome

Simply Put : The melting

Successful project made women water entrepreneurs instead of water carriers

Example of project cited in report released at World Water Week in Stockholm recently

What's your view of the road?

If we are not able to walk, we cannot really build a vibrant public transport network

Action falls short as far as industrial effluent pollution in India is concerned

There are lapses in implementation of laws and court judgements 

NEWS SNIPPETS

Parties to Stockholm Convention endorse agroecology as the best alternative to endosulfan

Pesticide’s use restricted to limited number of crops

Tarballs on India’s west coast: A tale of shifting responsibilities

Tarballs are hazardous to human life and marine biodiversity 

UN report warns of effects of urban expansion on biodiversity

Urban areas set to triple by 2030; population to touch 4.9 billion

South Africa to phase in carbon tax from 2015

Tax to increase at 10 per cent per year; draft policy sets relief limits

Alternatives to endosulfan

FAO to give suggestions on the pesticide to committee on persistent organic pollutants

People do pay for latrines

Supreme Court asks Centre to submit endosulfan disposal plan

Sets deadline of July 23

Use of toxic chemical HBCD severely restricted under Stockholm Convention

The persistent organic pollutant is used in building insulation, especially in the EU

Updates From Rio

Latest from Bonn climate negotiations

Pesticide manufacturers want to export more endosulfan

Apex court asks them to file application

India softens its stand on endosulfan

Endosulfan: meet in Geneva begins, India still in denial

Sharad Pawar says many states had asked him not to ban the pesticide

World Water Week discusses green options to manage water resources

Municipality in South Africa awarded for water and sanitation work

2022 too short, too far: DTE’s stories on 50 years of Stockholm Declaration

Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2022  

50 years since Stockholm conference: The summer lingers

That we still seek the Stockholm declaration’s ideals only shows how we need to up our game to prevent the planet’s environmental crisis

Looking back at Stockholm 1972: What Indira Gandhi said half a century ago on man & environment

The then prime minister of India delivered this speech June 14, 1972 at plenary session of UN Conference on Human Environment  

Stockholm Convention to take final call on 5 Persistent Organic Pollutants

United Nations Environment Programme’s proposal to list chlorpyrifos as POP was resisted by India

Stockholm+50: Measuring progress will be a big deal

Sustainability will command top priority when the world meets to review Stockholm; post-pandemic recovery must be inclusive