Environment
The last international Meeting of all country-parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) before the fateful Copenhagen Conference due in December took place in Barcelona, Spain over the past week. The Barcelona … Read moreBarcelona Climate Meeting: countdown to nothing
As we go to press, yet another fortnight-long international climate negotiation meeting, the last before the Copenhagen Summit in December 2009 which is to decide on global arrangements for the post-2012 period, has got over … Read moreIndian Climate Policy: Delhi Seminar towards an alternative position
The G8 Summit in L’Aquila, Italy, on July 8 was followed by a meeting on July 9 with the G5 major emerging economies China, India, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa and then a meeting … Read moreG8 Climate Declaration: cart before the horse
ON June 19, 2009 this year, Peru’s Congress or parliament repealed two highly controversial presidential decrees following months of struggle by indigenous peoples and democratic forces within Peru and failure of efforts to violently … Read morePeru’s Indigenous Peoples Victory Against Globalisation
New US auto fuel efficiency and emissions norms It must be said, there has not been a dull moment since new US President Barrack Obama took office in January this year. Perhaps in the first … Read moreNew US auto fuel efficiency and emissions norms
The best part of the G8 Summit that concluded on July 9 was the picture postcard setting of the mountain resort of Toyako (near Lake Toya hence Toya-ko) in Hokkaido, Japan. Those who expected the … Read moreHokkaido G8 Summit & Climate Change:G8 + O5 + MEM16 = 0
USA 2, Rest Of The World 0 Bali Climate Conference SO, yet another international conference on climate change, this time in the scenic Indonesian island of Bali, has come to an end without anything to … Read moreUSA 2, Rest Of The World 0 Bali Climate Conference
Last Chance To Save The Planet! SO this is it! No more excuses, no ifs and buts, this is definitive. The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the Report of its Third Working Group … Read moreLast Chance To Save The Planet!
More than 650 organisations – including Greenpeace and the International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements – have recently filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the United States over the approval of … Read moreThe Killing Fields of Monsanto
The intrinsic nature of capitalism is to draw in an ever larger circle of formations within its scope. This produces serious conflicts over natural resources, particularly in land, and its consequent degradation. Much of the … Read moreSocial Movements and Development: Some Ideological Issues
IN all the din made by US bombs in Afghanistan, and the media becoming almost single issue-focused, a major international event, namely the drawing-up of the first-ever multilateral treaty on environment, passed almost unnoticed. The … Read moreClimate Change Treaty Concluded: Good News or Hot Air?
REGULAR readers of these columns will probably wonder why another article on the much-debated Kyoto Protocol is appearing in People’s Democracy so soon after the previous one on the “toxic Texan” US President George W … Read moreKyoto Protocol Becomes Reality — Despite Rogue US