Fiscal implications of global decarbonization
Internationally coordinated climate mitigation policies can effectively put the world on a path toward achieving the agreed Paris temperature goals. Such coordination could be initiated by large players,
United States Of America (US)
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Bush sells wheat
INDIA had the last laugh when US President George Bush announced at an election campaign meeting US $1 billion in subsidies to boost US wheat exports. India,
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Musical chairs
UN SECRETARY general Boutros Boutros-Ghali's suggestion that the North and South should share equally the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the
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Hunger in a bitter battle of bullets and bullies
Bickering aid agencies and rival rebel militia are all to be blamed for blocking the delivery of emergency food supplies to starving millions
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Severe drought grips southern Africa
THE ELEVEN countries in southern Africa, with a population of over 120 million, are in the midst of a drought of unprecedented severity in the region, mainly due to the failure of last year's
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Organic cotton is catching on
Health concerns have led to increasing production of organically grown cotton, which uses less pesticide
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Vote for peace
JOINING the Russians and the French, the US senate overwhelmingly voted to suspend, and ultimately ban, the testing of nuclear weaponry. Two months back the House of Representatives also voted in
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Gene storage bank gets major facelift
Worried by the steady erosion of India"s wealth of genetic diversity, a major expansion project will quadruple storage capacity in the national gene bank
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A new disease or an HIV mutant?
Californian scientists have discovered the "human intracisternal retrovirus", which they believe causes a disease similar to AIDS. However, there is another school of thought that believes the new virus to be a distant strain of the HIV.
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Whose ivory is it anyway?
Does global intervention make for better environmental management? Not necessarily. The ban on international ivory trade to protect the African elephant is a case in point
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Trade controle is not fair instrument
In this issue, we carry two reports: One on the subject of human rights suppression and environmental degradation, and the other on trade bans against environmentally harmful products. Both trade and