State of global environmental governance 2021
Negotiating global agreements on climate action, biodiversity restoration, plastic pollution control, and other environmental crises is not easy at the best of times-and 2021 was far from that. Shifting
Global Environmental Agreements
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Joint venture
Southeast Asian nations ink pact that transcends borders to tackle haze pollution caused by land and forest fires
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Blowing in the wind
Civil society cannot distance itself from the phenomenon of right wing parties finding their way to the top in Europe
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United Nations
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) recently anno unced the launching of a coordinated plan for surveying and managing sturgeon stocks by Caspian Sea countries. The programme will pave
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Alliance on emissions
Australia inks pact with the US outside the Kyoto Protocol
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A logjam in the making
Lack of enthusiasm marks the preparations for the World Summit on Sustainable Development
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ARGENTINA
Australian nuc lear waste will now be ship ped and processed in Argen tina. Officials of both the countries recently signed an agreement to this effect, which has caused concern among the
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ARGENTINA
A long awaited breakthrough has been made with a decision to establish the first secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty System in Argentina, 40 years after the treaty came into force. A blocking veto
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Compromise on climate
Nations manage to resuscitate the Kyoto Protocol by a watered down agreement
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Pact politics
High political drama marks climate negotiations as the European Union strives to ratify the Kyoto protocol without the US, world"s biggest polluter
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The POPs treaty
A historical chance to get rid of some of the most toxic substances known to humans