There is no way the Copenhagen Accord can be billed as a climate change agreement. It is simply an agreement to legitimise the right to pollute.
We cannot say that development-related issues are long term while the immediate task is to annihilate the Naxalites.
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The research on Bt brinjal isn't unequivocal and hasn't been publicly-funded either - given the concerns, it's not worth the risk, says Sunita Narain.
We dumped Kyoto because of the US - but even the diluted US-inspired Copenhagen accord is in peril.
India's mineral-rich areas have the largest number of poor and are Naxal-affected - there's an obvious story here.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority's track-record suggests it is industry-friendly, not pro-consumer.
Cities are managing to get more water while the majority of people live in villages - the tension is escalating.
Put the poor who have voted for this government at the centre of reforms, says Sunita Narain.
The current wave of influenza A virus is linked to the way we produce food in factory farms.
Simply replacing the chulha won't help, we have to help the poor use clean renewable energy.
The issue is not the right to own a Nano but the right to a slice of the public subsidy so that everybody is mobile, says Sunita Narain.
Only when we make the world less economically vulnerable and more climate-secure, can we breathe easy.
The rich world continues to give lectures on energy conservation. But what is it doing itself?
Those involved in Satyam have also been fudging carbon credits but they get away as there is no penalty. Ever
While Detroit's Big Three wrangle with the US Congress for a bailout, we could be witnessing another extinction story.
Why go in for green technologies if the political system conspires to ensure they're fat and inefficient?
The duty on buses which carry more people is the same as that on small cars, such is our warped policy.
From SLAPPs to hiring professional protesters, industry's working overtime to find new ways to attack.
The Bush meeting was strategic: it was an attempt (and a successful one) to remove the difference between the two categories -- those who need to make deep cuts in their emissions and those who need the space to grow. If the Indians (and the Chinese) were looking for a place at this high table of polluters, they certainly got their wish. What Bush did should not surprise us.
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