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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Why don't we set our own house in order first?
The state uses all the right words. But its actions don't match its rhetoric, unfortunately
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Different perspectives
Some common misconceptions that emerged during the run up to Rio
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Poul Nielson
Vice-chairperson of the GEF Assembly and minister for development cooperation, Denmark "Developed countries should pay more towards environment protection" • We think that the world needs
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The racket at Rio
The save the planet bazaar does not deserve to be taken seriously
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Crispin Tickell
Chairperson of the Climate Institute, Washington, DC " This is a need for tough measures to check artifically induced climate change" • The biggest emitters must make the biggest
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Environmental Negotiations
Environmental negotiations have slowly turned into petty business transactions, not the establishment of fair and just global environmental governance systems
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The future we do not want
<div class="content"> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-intro"> <p class="rtejustify">World leaders attending Rio+20 did nothing to tackle the interlinked crises of economy and ecology,
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Is it time for Asia to abandon the dream of an effective multilateral climate treaty and adopt new approach?
<p><em>For growing economies the stress has to be on patterns of natural resource use and not on the status of natural resources; that is, dealing with the causes rather than the symptoms of the problem