Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Kamal Tiwari Vs Union of India & Others dated 27/05/2025. The Principal Chief Conservator of Forest and Chief Wildlife Warden, Rajasthan stated that a high level meeting to review the progress on the demarcation of Nahargarh …
As Parties to the Climate Convention EU Member States have opted for a joint fulfilment of post-2000 greenhouse gas emission reduction obligations. No agreement could be reached on a joint EU target before the distribution of the burden of emission reductions among Member States had been agreed upon. This paper …
BABIES born to mothers who live near hazardous waste landfill sites have a higher risk of serious birth defects, warns a European report. Women living within three-kilometre of a hazardous landfill site are more likely to have babies with nervous-system problems, holes in the heart and malformations of the large …
The European Commission (EC), the Brussels-based executive arm of the European Union (EU), backed away from imposing a Europe-wide ban on phthalates, potentially dangerous chemicals used in children's toys. Environmental groups allege that the EC bowed to pressure from the chemicals industry. In the decision taken on July 1, the …
the director-general of the World Trade Organisation (wto), Renato Ruggiero, has promised more dialogue with environmental groups to ally their fears that world trading rules threaten the environment. In his opening address to the wto's second ministerial meeting in Geneva on May 18, Ruggiero acknowledged that the wto's committee on …
Due to pressure from the European Union (EU) countries, the European Commission has said that genetically modified food will only have to be labelled when its presence is proven. The EU dropped its requirement that foods should carry "may contain" labels when it is uncertain if they include genetically modified …
governments may be forced to hike air ticket costs as European environmental groups are pushing for pollution taxes on aviation fuel. When European Union environment and transport ministers met in Chester, uk, recently, environmentalists demanded for a tax on carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from aircraft or extra tax …
The European Court of Justice has closed the door for individuals and public interest groups to defend environmental interests threatened or harmed by European Union (EU) institutions, such as the European Commission. Greenpeace International, which had brought the case to the Court to challenge the European Commission's funding of two …
norway's hottest environmental issue at the moment is the planning of two gas-fuelled power plants, which will lead to the emission of 2,000,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide ( co 2 ) annually. Permission for setting up the plants was granted by the Norwegian parliament before industrialised countries agreed, in …
industrialised countries and some developing countries who stood to benefit from trade in recyclable hazardous wastes, attempted to sabotage the Basel Convention and remove restrictions from this trade at the fourth Conference of Parties (cop-iv) which was held in Kuching, Malaysia. But the move failed to materialise in the face …
The Basel Convention on Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal came into being in May 1992. Initially, it had been ratified by just 20 countries. India ratified the convention the same year, but has yet to ratify the Basel Ban. Movement of hazardous wastes had become …
From the way the Indian delegation went about its business at COP-IV, it was apparent that they had come to Kuching with a mandate to protect India's economic interests. What was missing, however, was a perspective as far as the environment was concerned. For one, India wanted to discuss the …
The fourth Conference of Parties(COP-IV) to the Basel Convention saw a new NGO representation. The Basel Action Network (BAN) took keen interest in the proceedings. Greenpeace International, dominant in the earlier three COPs, was there too, in full strength. Consisting of
While the fourth Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention managed to keep the threat of amendments to Annex VII at bay, it showed a weak point in the convention which may be attacked again by vested interests. Annex VII had been created at the third Conference of Parties in …
soft pvc toys for infants release unacceptable quantities of hazardous substances, says a Scientific Committee of the European Union (eu) in Brussels. The Committee states that exposure of babies to the three softeners added to pvc toys - the phthalates dinp , dehp and dnop - can be hazardous. Doses …
The European Union has recently agreed to fund research to evaluate methods and techniques which rank pesticides according to their environmental impact. One such system is being evaluated by the University of Hertsfordshire in the UK. The software, which will be available by early 1998, is called the pesticide eco-rating …
The European Union (EU) was once again in the grip of a fishing controversy. After stormy discussions, EU fishery ministers agreed to reduce fishing capacities by up to 30 per cent over the next five years in a bid to save dwindling fish stocks in European waters. The agreement allows …
The Caribbean's account for three per cent of world trade in bananas, which are cultivated by small farmers and sold to the European Union (eu). However, not all the profits from the trade of Caribbean bananas go to small farmers. Fyffes, a Dublin-based mediator company dominating the uk market, has …
It was a victory for environmentalists when the European Court in Brussels recently ruled that the European Community (EC) should not have refused the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) access to documents relating to a building project in Burren National Park in Ireland in 1995. Earlier, WWF had complained …
NOTWITHSTANDING the curbs imposed by the European Union (EU) on the fishing of endangered stocks in European waters, cod stocks in the North Sea am on the verge of extinction. Scientists of the Scottish Office's Marine Laboratory in Aberdeen, UK, believe that the EU's attempts to reduce the total allowable …
