Global Environmental Agreements

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

Publication Date:

14/09/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Environment Politics, Global Environmental Agreements, Argentina, Antarctica

Water Resources

Compromise on climate

Nations manage to resuscitate the Kyoto Protocol by a watered down agreement

Publication Date:

14/08/2001

Author(s): Neelam Singh

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Global Environmental Agreements, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Global Warming, Kyoto Protocol, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Developing Countries, European Union (EU), Climate

Climate Change

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

Publication Date:

30/07/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

10

Issue:

20010731

pp:

0

Tags:

Global Environmental Agreements, UNFCCC, Croplands, Soil Erosion, Forest Management, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Emissions Trading, China, United States Of America (US), India, Developing Countries, European Union (EU), Global Warming, Kyoto Protocol

Environment

The POPs treaty

A historical chance to get rid of some of the most toxic substances known to humans

Publication Date:

29/06/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

10

Issue:

20010630

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, POPs, Pesticides, Health Effects, DDT, Hazardous Products, Global Environmental Agreements, UN, NGO, India, Global, Developing Countries, PCBs

India

Pops out

at least 120 countries have agreed to become signatories to a un treaty banning or restricting the use of 12 toxic chemicals known as persistent organic pollutants ( pop s). The treaty,

Publication Date:

14/06/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Global Environmental Agreements, POPs, Pesticides, Malaria, DDT, Developing Countries, European Union (EU), Toxic Wastes