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A partial success
But escape clauses weaken radical decisions taken at the recent convention on biodiversity
But escape clauses weaken radical decisions taken at the recent convention on biodiversity
Mixed forecast for agriculture for the ten entrants into the EU
Smoke from wildfires in Indonesia has drifted across to neighbouring Malaysia to envelop several cities in an unhealthy haze. Officials blamed the smog on more than 300 "hot spots' on the Indonesian
Not all tourists are made to feel welcome
Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the 10-country grouping, have agreed to create a fund to support environmental projects in the region. The fund, that could be up to
Translocation as a way of dealing with leopard human conflicts is completely wrong
Pakistani red tape: Adelay in the approval of Pakistan's National Environment Policy (NEP) due to bureaucratic hassles is likely to affect Pakistani exports in a big way. Pakistani industries have
Non-congruence over intellectual property rights and agricultural issues have complicated negotiations for a free-trade agreement between the US and the three Andean nations
Transparent workstyles of the bureaucracy
Some places where the law has failed...
At a time when hardly any government agency in India studies and publicises the harm that filthy air can cause to human health, one man is trying to come up with some scientific data to understand
Lack of a coherent environmental policy is the main drawback of Hero Puch. It badly needs to shift gears to address green concerns
Government proposes. Industry disposes. Programmes for cleaning up have very largely gone by the wayside
The European court of first instance in Luxembourg recently refused to shield three of the world's largest tobacco companies from legal action linked to cigarette smuggling. The move was initiated
tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa's decision to resuscitate the 14.85-megawatt Perungudi waste-to-energy (wte) plant has been greeted with dismay by environmentalists. On January 31, 2003
In a dramatic development, a division bench of the Madras High Court vacated the stay on the Tamil Nadu government order (go) that terminated licences for sand quarrying. The previous restraining
Yes, if the Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration is to be believed.
The EU has not learnt anything from its failure at Cancun
sole authority: The Madras High Court (HC) has vested the Tamil Nadu government with the exclusive right to carry out sand quarrying activities. In doing so, the HC has upheld a government order (GO)
Nearly 700 laboratory animals housed at the Industrial and Toxicological Research Centre's (itrc) Gheru Campus in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, have died overnight of extreme heat. The air-conditioning at