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Sticking points at Copenhagen summit
There are various sticking points in the climate talks at Copenhagen, including the $10 billion a year that leaders of industrial countries have offered as short-term financing to cope with climate change, when the need is for $200 billion More... It all boils down to ‘climate adequacy’ and ‘climate justice’India’s stand at Copenhagen is that “every human being has an equal right to the atmosphere”. Failure to recognise this right could lead to a situation where there are haves and have-nots in the climate sphere More... War of the videosFilms and videos that chronicle the peaceful resistance of people to powerful industrial and political interests that seek to dispossess them are extremely important at a time when all such dissent is criminalised. But they are often lost in the long list of films that seek to do just the opposite More... Follow the leaders in clean energy technologiesA new WWF report released at the Copenhagen climate summit puts Denmark and Brazil at the top of countries leading in clean energy technologies. Clean energy technologies will be the third largest industry by 2020, after automobiles and electronics More... No juvenile courts in J&KMinors in Jammu & Kashmir are arrested under the stringent Public Safety Act for offences such as stone-pelting and incarcerated in jails together with adults. With neither a functioning Juvenile Justice Act nor juvenile courts for young offenders as in other parts of the country, these children emerge from jail traumatised and radicalised More... Jharkhand’s fluorosis nightmareThe fluoride level in water taken from a hand pump in Sidekhurd and other villages of Garwa district is more than twice the permissible level of 1 ppm. Acute dental and skeletal disorders plague these villagers, but they know nothing about fluorosis. Government admits that of the 550 fluoride control mechanisms installed, 100 are defunct More... Glaciers in retreatThe Himalayas, with an estimated 475 small and large glaciers, is the largest reserve of water in the form of ice and snow outside the polar regions. What will happen to this ecosystem and the subcontinent when the glaciers melt faster than ever before and unleash these vast water reserves? More... Is media part of the solution or part of the problem?The North-South divide on climate change is very marked. An international congress of journalists held in New Delhi in October 2009 discussed how reporting on the issue could help clinch an agreement at the all-important Copenhagen meet in December More... Neem, garlic and green chillies: Recipe for a bumper cropVeera Narayana was once a desperate farmer in drought-hit Andhra Pradesh, spending Rs 10,000 in chemical inputs per acre of watermelon crop. Today, he is the guru of organic farming in Singanamala block, his watermelon harvests healthy and his input costs a fraction of what they were More... Watchdog for women's rightsThirty years after CEDAW, does the Convention really serve a useful purpose? Sunila Abeysekera, Sri Lankan human rights campaigner who heads International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific, says the Convention is a good space for democratic countries to reaffirm that they respect women’s rights More... Show them the money: Yvo de Boer, UNFCCC chiefLet's face it, says UNFCCC chief Yvo de Boer, without financial support the engagement of developing countries in climate change mitigation is inconceivable. Rich countries need to place $ 10 billion on the table to get the action plan moving, besides demonstrating clearly how developing nations can get long-term funding in order to pick up the bill to implement these changes More... The Bhopal Movement as a schoolEurig Scandrett concludes our series on 25 years of the Bhopal gas survivors’ movement with a reflection on how poor and ignorant people learnt everyday forms of resilience in the face of oppression and how that resilience evolved into resistance and political protest More... The ‘servant’ is also a workerDomestic placement agencies are mushrooming everywhere. A substantial number of domestic workers are trafficked from poor states like West Bengal, Orissa and Jharkhand. But there is no national legislation to protect the rights and ensure the welfare of this huge army of domestic workers More... Letter from Dhaka: A river trip and climate changeA sail down the ageless rivers of Bangladesh is a reminder that 20 years from now the teeming humanity and its way of life, the abundant flora and fauna will disappear as a consequence of climate change. A rise in sea surface temperatures and levels could mean that 10% of Bangladesh would be under water in 20 years More... Tiger boundariesA turned-away tiger complains to the Supreme Court. Ashish Kothari reports on this strange case from the Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh border More... |
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