How smart is a smart city?

Loud and unclear

Beyond failure

What of the Doha round? What of the WTO itself?

In the snakepit

How negotiations on issues moved, or didn't

South Asia - Fuel subsidy to continue in Sri Lanka

NAFTA kicks in, Mexican farmers protest

New gold rush

India shakes up WTO

The fracas over India's refusal to meet the deadline on trade facilitation exposes rich nations' double standards

Double financing for natural ecosystems by 2025 to deal with climate, biodiversity crises: UN report

Current global investments in nature-based solutions $154 billion per year, needs to be $384 billion

Rooftop hurdles

Financial and policy issues hinder the adoption of grid-connected rooftop solar power in the country

Smoke in the kitchen

The new ‘green’ biomass cookstove has immense potential but why is it missing in homes?

Rich bias

THE SKEPTICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST Bjørn Lomborg · Cambridge University Press · Cambridge · 2001 · Pages: pp 515 &…

World Trade Outcry

How inevitable was the collapse of talks at the World Trade Organization? How engineered was it? CLIFFORD POLYCARP reports from the streets and …

Freeing bamboo from the state

A recent notification making bamboo a minor forest produce can only be the first step

Dairy paradox

Biofuel good idea, bad practice

No state support to Zimbabwe's A2 farmers

Tryst with rain

Following the monsoon failure of 1999-2000, two states - Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh - launched crash programmes to encourage water harvesting. An …

Trade barred

Countries protect their renewable energy equipment. Exporting nations see it as trade barrier  

EU threat to farmers

Free trade pact with EU will have a severe impact on Indian agriculture, specially the dairy sector

Why the US is such a bully

US attempts to kill of global democracy are getting more commonplace than ever. In such a political climate, it is impossible to talk about …

A Renewable Crisis

The last time there was a major push for renewable energy alternatives to polluting fossil fuels was in the aftermath of 1970s oil shock. And then,…

Long yarn

The cotton story is a tangled tale. In many parts of India, farmers are committing suicide. It's been a while Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and now …

China offers incentive for non-food biofuel

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