Ten years of the Biological Diversity Act
As India plays host to the Convention on Biological Diversity's 11th Conference of the Parties in Hyderabad in October 2012, this article takes a closer look at the country's legislation on the subject
Rio Summit
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Borrowed perspectives
For most of the live coverage of the Rio conference we have to depend on CNN. And it requires BBC to give us a perspective on our Green Revolution....
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Natural jeans, clean gasoline and organic cures
Manufacturers across the world are busy developing environment friendly products and minimising pollution in production process. A select list
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Echoing Bush's call
Influential northern NGOs joined hands to demand a "comprehensive strategy" on forests
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The global green farce
At UNCED the inclustrialised countries do not want any serloys restructuring of their economies or their lifestyles to save the earth. But the Brazil conference will see a major effort to got developing countries to share the burden of change. Des
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Focusing on links
Climate change, desertification and the GEF
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Rio has not changed the North South equation
The UNCED deliberations have to be viewed in the context of northern attempts to maintain hegemony over the rest of the world
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Going slow
Efforts to reduce the impact of business and industry on nature are falling short, reveals a new United Nations Environment Programme (unep) report. Very few companies in each industry are actively
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What's not in is more important
What will UNCED discuss? Theoretically, everything. But it will focus on: Long-term issues like global warming. National resources in the South like tropical rain forests and conservation of
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Off to the next round
The South came back reasonably victorious from Rio, it was only because of the poor leadership of USA. The question now is: will it be able to sustain its success?
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Sheri Xiaoyi Liao
President, Global Village of Beijing, an NGO promoting public involvement in environmental protection "The NGO movement needs to be strengthened" • The ngo movement has been growing in