International Cooperation

South Asian Union: Dream reality?

A closer knit South Asian community is not beyond the realms of possibility now. At the 12th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit in Islamabad from January 4 6, leaders of the region took some of the boldest steps ever since the groupin

Publication Date:

14/02/2004

Author(s): Clifford Polycarp

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Environment, Health, Energy, International Cooperation, Poverty, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Education, Asia, Islamabad, India, Food Security, Globalisation

Air Pollution

Ordering a new world

I met Jacques Chirac this fortnight. Just before he made the call to George Bush and just before he left to attend the European Union summit in Athens, the French president met some 20 of us in his

Publication Date:

14/05/2003

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20030515

pp:

24

Tags:

Aid, International Cooperation, Governance, UN, West Bengal, Global, European Union (EU), Globalisation

Climate Change

CoP 8: Nothing's brewing

For a fortnight, 1,456 delegates from 167 countries sat in conference halls, attended plenary sessions and roundtables, and sized each other up over a cup of coffee. In the end, CoP 8 didn't witness any scintillating intellectual and moral leadership from

Publication Date:

29/11/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20021130

pp:

0

Tags:

UNFCCC, Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, International Cooperation, China, Denmark, India, Sustainable Development, Statistics, Developing Countries

India

Democracy or dependance

Will the New Partnership for African Development NEPAD be able to deliver on its promises?

Publication Date:

14/10/2002

Author(s): John Stremlau

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20021015

pp:

0

Tags:

Development, International Cooperation, Governance, Politics, Africa

India

Just hot air

NEPAD falls short on deliverables though it is heavy on promises

Publication Date:

14/10/2002

Author(s): Sanusha Naidu

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20021015

pp:

0

Tags:

Development, International Cooperation, Africa

Wildlife

Coming out of coma

A decline in its funds and erosion in its mandate have made the United Nations Environment Programme virtually ineffective. Bharat H Desai looks at recent attempts to revitalise it

Publication Date:

14/03/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

9

Issue:

20010315

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment Politics, Global Environmental Agreements, Montreal Protocol, CITES, Convention On Biological Diversity (CBD), Basel Convention, International Cooperation, UNEP, WTO, Aid, UN Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD)

India

What it takes to clean a river

It is the tale of two European rivers. The Rhine and the Danube. No river system in the world has a density of industrial agglomerations comparable to that of the Rhine. The river connects the economies of some of the richest countries, while the Danube l

Publication Date:

30/12/2000

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

9

Issue:

20001231

pp:

0

Tags:

Pollution Control, River Pollution, Danube, Rhine, Riverine Ecology, Waste Disposal, Industrial Disasters, International Cooperation, Public Participation, Europe, Sustainable Development

India