Climate change - A challenge to India's economy
Briefing paper on climate change for members of Parliament by Anil Agarwal - Calling upon policy makers to recognise India's stake in the international climate change negotiations.
Anil Agarwal
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In full gear
What worries me more than the actual problem of vehicular pollution is that nobody is looking at it from a national perspective
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Finding a job
What is saddest in India is that unemployment is not even a top issue of public and political concern today. The government does not have a think tank to identify public policies to deal with this problem
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Chink in the armour
The West fears that its efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions would be unproductive if the developing world did not follow suit
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To be healthy, wealthy and wise...
...activists must fight for better prevention and health education
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Losing appeal
The book says that common chemicals and plastics may be affecting our hormonal systems, affecting foetuses and our future generations and causing, perhaps, a fall in intelligence
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The challenge of the balance
To start with, the environmental community should develop a shared green manifesto and jointly put it forward to the people as its own vision of green tinged prosperity and development
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There's something rotten...
Despite judicial activism in the environmental field, despite the failure of the regulatory system, the courts have rarely awarded compensation to the victims
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Neem: the patent serial
The 32nd US patent on neem was give to FMC Corporation of Philadelphia. It is the corporation's second patent titled, "Combinations of neem seed extract and bifenthrin for control of
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People or bust
Anthropologists are realising that the rate of disappearance of cultures has become a serious problem, and are thus taking up activist roles
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Piloting disaster
I WOULD like to strongly denounce the message sent by Rajesh Pilot to this august assembly to discuss people's management of the Riljaji National Park by the Van Gujjars. It appears from his message