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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Blurred vision
Issues in which the economic interests of industrialised countries coincide with their ecological interests are acceptable in the UN; the rest is usually a sham
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Whither civil society?
Is it not sad that the money given by a British middle class woman to Oxfam has to come to India to help Indian NGOs work with India's poor?
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WTO: a mock battle
Pressures on <font class='UCASE'>wto</font> from the environmental lobbies of the North have grown and the organisation has more or less caved in completely
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The Marlboro people
Indian companies are learning how to fight the civil society from their Western counterparts
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The Bill of contentions
The biodiversity bill has the potential of challenging the much hated formal intellectual property rights system of the TRIPs
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Mind over matter
The change in the mindset of the rural people and in the ecology is extraordinary. The mental poverty has gone
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The last of the humble farmer
In any democratic country, environmental concerns can get integrated with developmental programmes only if the leader is sensitive to them
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Economy over ecology
The civil society of every nation, both Northern and Southern, will have to empower itself and make its government accountable and responsible
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Getting Greener
I hope our readers will find this report useftd and interesting. We would be delighted to receive their comments on how such an exercise can be improved in the future.
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A minister's choice
On global issues Kamal Nath was prepared to take positions unpalatable to his bureaucrats and worked closely with CSE. But he was not willing to go far on national issues, especially on the crucial one of participatory natural resource management