What's new at the Centre for Science and
Environment (CSE), New Delhi, IndiaCSE has
published the first Report on Global Environmental Negotiations (GEN-1) after
observing the developments in international environmental policies from a South
perspective. Over the years, we have formed a network of dozens of expert
collaborators all over the world that help us to follow negotiations, the signing of
agreements, their implementation and their effects, in particular on the South. GEN-1
analyzes three post-Rio conventions, four ongoing negotiations, and two environmental
institutions. The Report's aim is to provide civil society, often removed from the scene
of international negotiations, the information it needs to intervene, to ensure that
the rules that are set internationally are democratic and just, to both rich and poor
nations. A release event in Brussels, organised in collaboration with the Heinrich-Böll
Foundation, will be held on Thursday, June 15th, from 17.00 to 19.00 hrs at their Brussels
office. The Brussels release is part of the European release programme.
The report has already been released in Berlin, Bonn, Bangalore,
Chang Mai (Thailand), Boston, Berkeley, Princeton, Stanford, Atlanta, Washington
DC, Los Angeles, New York, and New Haven (Yale). In the coming months we plan
to release the report in Amsterdam, London, Chennai, Dhaka, Kathmandu and many more.
Look out for the one in your city. If you wish to be involved in releasing the book
in your area, please contact anju@cseindia.org
A summary of the Report can be seen at
http://www.oneworld.org/cse/html/eyou/eyou41.htm
Subsidised killing
They may survive the drought. But they cannot survive government policies. When
people have to abandon their livestock, they are reduced to misery, as is happening
in Gujarat and Rajasthan. Because India's rural economy is built around livestock,
which carries more freight and passengers than the Indian Railways, sustains the poorest
of the poor, and provides renewable energy and organic manure. Then why is India's
livestock labelled 'unproductive' and 'damaging' to the environment, asks Sopan Joshi at
http://www.oneworld.org/cse/html/dte/dte20000615/dte_cover.htm
This drought is sponsored by the Govt of
India
It was a meeting with an amazing lesson. The
subject was rainwater harvesting. But the message was one on governance. And a
truly stark one. If only India could learn from it. A Crosscurrents piece by Anil Agarwal
at
http://www.oneworld.org/cse/html/dte/dte20000615/dte_cross.htm
The newcomer
Transgenic cotton is poised to enter the Indian market. India is opening its doors
to the transgenic revolution - or should we say has initiated the process for the final
green signal. More at
http://www.oneworld.org/cse/html/dte/dte20000615/dte_news1.htm
Giving a breather
The Supreme Court extends the deadline to introduce cleaner petrol and diesel
in New Delhi. On May 10, the Supreme Court announced a clear schedule for supply of
cleaner petrol and diesel to the capital. Details at
http://www.oneworld.org/cse/html/dte/dte20000615/dte_news2.htm
Back where it belongs
India emerges victorious from a legal wrangle with the US over the patenting of
neem. It was a long bitter fight. But for India, it ended on a promising note.
http://www.oneworld.org/cse/html/dte/dte20000615/dte_news.htm
Editorial piece from the desk of Anil
Agarwal:
Elite
in an ivory tower
Gujarat’s minister for
major irrigation projects needs to understand that big dams alone do not add up to water
management
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