R.K. Pachauri

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R.K. Pachauri

You and I can make Kyoto-2 work

The 16th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is due to begin in less than four months from now, at Cancun, Mexico.

Calculated risk

I wrote about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in these columns on May 11, 2010.

1° difference

World Environment Day is celebrated each year on June 5. The first major international event dealing with the environment was held in Stockholm, from June 5-16, 1972.

The just-concluded summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) in Chicago leaves gaping questions about the viability and direction of the world’s largest military alliance.

If we rework Shankar’s cartoon with, say, Mahatma Gandhi riding a bullock cart of democracy in his dwija dress and Jawaharlal Nehru standing in his sanatan pundit’s dress, a thread across his body, an