October 16th, 2001 Climate change will trigger a series of ecological and economic fall-outs for India. Though details remain fuzzy largely due to the apathy of Indian policy makers and scientists. 1998 A high-intensity cyclone destroys two oil refineries under construction, six wind farms and a salt production facility in the coastal regions of Gujarat. Later in the year, heavy monsoon flood the entire country.
October 16th, 2001 Will the North decide the path of sustainable development for the rest of the world? Will the interests of the South be protected? As preparations for the World Summit on Sustainable Development get underway, many contentious issues boil over
August 31st, 2001 Nations adopt a diluted agreement on implementing the Kyoto Protocol that gives away too many concessions to polluting countries
August 10th, 2001 High political drama marks climate negotiations as the European Union strives to enforce the Kyoto protocol without the US. The South could play a crucial role pushing for a fair treaty, but it simply continues to squabble over a few dollars! pactpol.jpg (21279 bytes)
August 10th, 2001 Nation manages to resuscitate the Kyoto Protocol by a watered-down agreement
June 22nd, 2001 George W. Bush gets a hostile reaction from the European Union on his stubborn stand regarding the Kyoto Protocol Even as the US reiterated its rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, the European Union (EU) has decided to implement it, with or without the US. "The EU will stick to the Kyoto Protocol and go for ratification, " announced Goran Persson, EU head and Swedish prime minister at the one day EU-US summit in Göteborg, Sweden on June 14, 2001.
June 22nd, 2001 Genetically improved plants in Vietnam to help Australia meet its Kyoto target as cheaply as possible
June 15th, 2001 US organisations to begin trade in carbon dioxide emissions.
June 15th, 2001 Two new studies quash industrialised countries hopes of meeting most of their Kyoto commitments by using carbon sinks Forests and soil 'sinks' may not eventually turn out to be so useful to industrialised countries in search of cheap ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Two scientific studies conducted in North American pine forests present evidence that estimates of increased absorption of carbon dioxide as its concentration in the atmosphere rises are unduly optimistic.
April 23, 2001 Pronk offers a compromise plan that gives away too much on sinks.
April 23, 2001 The US citizens are more concerned with cost than action to arrest climate change. Although 75 per cent of those surveyed in the US in a Time/CNN poll consider global warming a "very serious" or "fairly serious" problem, they are more worried about high electric bills or losing their jobs. Only 48 per cent are willing to shell out an extra quarter of a dollar per gallon of gasoline to reduce global warming and pollution.
Press Release Biggest rogue of them all APRIL 3, 2001 The world should declare the US a rogue nation for this act of extreme selfishness. And the Indian government should stop being a pushover.
March 26, 2001 Technologies exist to arrest global warming. But the political will toimplement them is missing NEELAM SINGH
March 16, 2001 The leader of the most polluting country in the world claims global warming treaty is "unfair" because it excludes India and China
February 28, 2001 Greenhouse gas emissions could raise global temperatures much more than previously forecast leading to drought and flooding as weather patterns shift and polar ice melts
February 28, 2001