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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BRAZIL
Brazil has slashed funds which it had promised to contribute towards a pilot project aimed at preserving the Amazon forests. The US $250-million-project was backed by seven leading industrial
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Rio s Stepchild
The UN Convention to Combat Desertification is a non starter. Administrative and financial matters get the better of any serious attempts to deal with global desertification. Though the desert is expanding, the North is not interested
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The gist of the New Delhi statement
The first assembly of the GEF agreed that:
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In search of Vision 2020
The vision of a common future appears to have been lost somewhere along the way from the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 to the first assembly of the Global Environment Facility GEF at New Delhi. The meet highlighted that there is a need for commitment from
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Everybody wants to be green
Politicians and businessmen appear concerned about the environment these days. Their speeches and interviews are laced with expressions like sustainable development , ecology and green values . But do they actually mean what they say?
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For a new deal
The role of non-government organisations (NGOs) in the international arena is changing. They have to devise new strategies to consolidate their position
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Planetary politics
We live in a world where nobody wishes to yield an inch
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United chaos
•A review of the five years since Rio, Earth Summit II showed collective irresponsibility by nation states for the earth's future •The special session of the UN General Assembly was
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Words worth
Statements of the world leaders at the Summit
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Scapegoat: Third World
The Denver meet set the tenor of non cooperation among the countries meeting at UNGASS