RASHME SEHGAL

India, being a major IT destination, is presently producing 400,000 tonnes of e-waste annually
The campaign launched by civil society groups against the huge quantities of toxic waste being generated in India has forced the United Nations to send UN special rapporteur Okechukwu Ibeanu to get a first hand take on practises being followed here.

Ever since his second term as prime minister began in May, Manmohan Singh has been out on foreign tours so often that in South Block he is now jocularly known as the 'Flying Sikh'--a sobriquet reserved for India's most famous athlete of the 1960s.

IN THE old days, the job of eradicating disease fell to governments and inter-governmental bodies. Then charities, often led by celebrities or entrepreneurs, joined in. Finally, in the Western world at least, governments accepted the need to pool their efforts with those of private donors, big and small. The effort still seems unequal to the task.

FACED with the undoubted grandeur of climate change, a grand response seems in order. But, to the immediate disappointment to most of those participating and watching, the much anticipated UN climate conference held in Copenhagen in December led to no such thing.

Many major economies have already adopted a goal of limiting warming to 2

The chief of the United Nations has conceded that a deal in Copenhagen on climate change might not include promised financial aid for developing countries, an admission that will infuriate poorer nations and potentially scupper a broad-based agreement.

HARDEV SANOTRA
The head of World Meteorological Organisation Michel Jarraud said the rising global temperatures posed a problem for the extreme weather, even though 2009 was not so
The year 2009 was a benign year, as far as climate disasters are concern.

Should we be concerned that the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference is not going to produce a concrete plan to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions?

DESPITE the gloomy talk that preceded the UN climate conference, the opening was upbeat. Most big countries had vowed to cut or limit emissions during the previous few weeks. As delegates arrived, America

The biggest climate meeting in history, with 15,000 participants from 192 nations, opened in Copenhagen on Monday, with hosts Denmark saying an unmissable opportunity to protect the planet was