Global Electricity Review 2025
<p>In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking
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The way of all waste
Environmentalists and developingcountries managed to stave off an attempt to sabotage the Basel Ban on international trade in hazardous substances at the fourth Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention
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Against waste
Protecting poor countries from becoming dumping grounds for the North s wastes
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Need for introspection
India s stand at the conference
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In the thick of battle
Environmentalists beef up defences
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At bay or at sea?
How plugging a loophole may create a flaw in a convention
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The perils of PVC
soft pvc toys for infants release unacceptable quantities of hazardous substances, says a Scientific Committee of the European Union (eu) in Brussels. The Committee states that exposure of babies
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Scoring pesticides
The European Union has recently agreed to fund research to evaluate methods and techniques which rank pesticides according to their environmental impact. One such system is being evaluated by the
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WEST INDIES
The Caribbean's account for three per cent of world trade in bananas, which are cultivated by small farmers and sold to the European Union (eu). However, not all the profits from the trade of
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CONCEALING FACTS
It was a victory for environmentalists when the European Court in Brussels recently ruled that the European Community (EC) should not have refused the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) access to
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UNITED NATIONS
Representatives from over 100 countries unanim ously endorsed a greater role for the UN Environ ment Programme (UNEP) in shaping a greener future for the planet, at the 19th session of the governing