If only 16 per cent of the world's population behaved in a more responsible manner, many environmental problems would have been resolved. Consider this. In 1997, the 29 industrialised member-nations

Environmentalists and developing

Protecting poor countries from becoming dumping grounds for the North s wastes

India s stand at the conference

Environmentalists beef up defences

How plugging a loophole may create a flaw in a convention

a list of hazardous wastes that had been compiled in a bid to prevent their export to third world countries is likely to be revised and drawn up afresh. Nearly 100 countries would revise the list

:id fatigue' in the West is changing the perception of the development paradigm of the poorer countries

MANY industrialized countries regard their developing counterparts as dumpyards - destined receivers of hazardous by products and waste generated by their hi-tech lifestyle and consumerism. This

Western aid to developing countries has fallen to a 20-year low according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (oecd). In its annual report, the oecd warns that stagnant

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