Developing Countries

ALMOST half of India's urban population is in favour of protecting the environment "even at the risk of slowing down economic growth" as against one-fourth who feel that economic growth should be the topmost priority.

Publication Date:

29/06/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Tropical Forests, Urban Environment, Economic Development, Developing Countries

Environment

For a fistful of dollars

MR BUSH says he will go to Rio as he is now satisfied with the global agreement of climate. Nothing can be a sharper indictment of the climate convention. Whereas the world needs long-term

Publication Date:

14/06/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920615

pp:

0

Tags:

Ecology, Rio Summit, Ozone Layer, Government Of India (GOI), United States Of America (US), Developing Countries

India

Halons grow in India

WHILE the developed world gears up to phase out ozone depleting gases by AD 2000, Mafatlal's Navin Fluorine Industries has set up India's first halon-1211 manufacturing plant, in Surat.

Publication Date:

14/06/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Montreal Protocol, Ozone Layer, Imports, India, Developing Countries

Biodiversity

'Their capability to pay arises out of their high level of exploitation'

Union minister for environment and forests Kamal Nath's attitude to the UNCED summit is a curious mixture of pessimism and optimism. He is unhappy over what he feels is the "rigidity and inflexibility" of some of the greatest polluters in the world. Yet,

Publication Date:

14/06/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920615

pp:

0

Tags:

Rio Summit, Global Warming, Biodiversity, World Bank, Developing Countries

Industry

Communitise natural resource management

PRIME Minister P V Narasimha Rao"s government has taken dramatic steps in less than a year of its existence towards a liberalised regime for the industrial sector. If the new policies

Publication Date:

30/05/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920531

pp:

0

Tags:

Ecology, Industry, Europe, United States Of America (US), Developing Countries

Environment

Why this magazine?

THIS magazine is not the product of a desire to capture a share of the information market. It is the product of a need that we feel within us, of a desire to fill a critical information gap. In

Publication Date:

30/05/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920531

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Sustainable Development, Developing Countries, Science

Climate Change

A place in the sun

The UN sponsored discussions to prepare a global convention on climate began in February in USA. The aim is to prepare a legally binding convention to curb gaseous emissions leading to a much feared climate destabilisation. This convention is being seen as the world's greatest commitment to the environment and its future generations.

Publication Date:

01/04/1991

Author(s): Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain

Source: India Magazine

pp:

54-55

Tags:

Climate Change, Green House Gases, Carbon Dioxide, India, Methane, China, Brazil, Developing Countries, Deforestation, Livestock, Rice, Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain

Climate Change

Global warming in an unequal world: a case of environmental colonialism

The idea that developing countries like India and China must share the blame for heating up the earth and destablising its climate, as espoused in a recent study published in the United States by the WRI in collaboration with the UN, is an excellent example of environmental colonialism. The report of the WRI is based less on science and more on politically motivated and mathematical jugglery.

Publication Date:

Dec 1990

Author(s): Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain

Source: Centre for Science and Environment

Tags:

Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Green House Gases, China, India, Developing Countries