WHICH ENERGY?
2006 Institute of Science in Society
Energy Report
by Mae-Wan Ho, Peter Bunyard, Peter Saunders, Elizabeth Bravo, Rhen Gala

Biodiversity Convention

• Yellowstone bioprospecting suspended by US court  (C.Raghavan)
  
• North undermining implementation of Biodiversity Convention (G.S.Nijar)
  
• The politics of knowledge at the CBD (Vandana Shiva)

Commission for Sustainable Development

• CSD staves off US assault on balanced approach to biotech (G.S.Nijar)

Agriculture

• Alarm bells over US fungus experiments abroad (C.Raghavan) (10 May 00)
  
• Globalisation of agriculture and rising food insecurity
  
• Indian farmers protest against pro-liberalisation agricultural policy (Vandana Shiva)
  
• Land degradation causes $10 billion loss to South Asia annually (Martin Khor)
  

Forest

• Costa Rica: Wildlife in danger  (Nefer Munoz)
  
• Brazil's bailout is a time bomb (Danielle Knight and Abid Aslam)
  

Aquaculture

• Groups want action on destructive shrimp farms (Danielle Knight)
  
• The Aquaculture Disaster (Martin Khor)
  
• The negative impacts of aquaculture
  

Toxics

• US: States call for removal of toxic car parts (D.Knight) 3 July 2001
• US:Chemicals in environment causing disabilities in children, warns report (D.Knight) (7 Sept 00)
  
• South's farmers, workers are victims of Northern toxic exports (S.Singh) (5 May 00)
  
• Sparrows massacred by pesticide in Bangladesh (UBINIG)
  
• Hazardous wastes protocol opened for signature (S.Singh) (7 Mar  00)
  
• The covert ground-water crisis (S.Singh) (3 Mar  00)
  
• Teetering from high hopes to disappointment (S Singh)
  
• Bhopal disaster lingers after nearly 15 years (Danielle Knight)
  
• US: Native Americans denounce toxic legacy (Danielle Knight)
  
• US uproar over waste from gold mines (Danielle Knight)
  
• Basel Convention meeting reaffirms ban on hazardous wastes (G.S.Nijar)
  
• Eliminating toxic chemical threats - A new framework (Gary Cohen)
  
• Indian environmentalist files legal suit to ban hazardous waste imports
  
• OECD toxic waste exports banned under new agreement (C.Raghavan)
  
• The Marcopper toxic mine disaster-Philippine's biggest industrial accident (V.T.Corpuz)
  

Biotechnology

• Monsanto wins "Roger" award for worst TNC (SUNS)
  
• UN accused of industry bias on biotech
  

General

• International Environmental Governance: Some issues from a developing country perspective (TWN)
• Latin America: Recovery of ozone layer up to poor countries (C.Raghavan) 12 Sep 2001
• Environmental lessons from an unlikely source (G.Mutume) 18 June 2001
• Europe: Fails to decouple natural resource use and economic growth (B.Kenety) 2 Apr 2001
• Experts seek ways to combat desertification (C.Raghavan) 21 Mac 2001
• UN: Gets ready for second Earth Summit next year (T.Deen) 14 Mac 2001
• Caribbean: Plan needed to mitigate impact of natural disasters (D.Jackson Miller) 15 Jan 2001
  
• US: Strong leadership urgently needed, warns report (D.Knight) 13 Jan 2001
  
• No funds to fight desertification (J.Ramachandran) 12 Dec 2000
  
• UN agencies release joint report on El Nino (M.Sandrasagra) 24 Oct 2000
  
• UNEP head for cooperation on trade and environment (Lean Ka-Min) 24 Oct 2000
  
• Critics blast spate of oil mergers
  
• US: Thousands die annually from power-plant pollution
  
• Environment groups organize against NAFTA rules (D.Knight) (8 Sept 00)
  
• Widespread decline in worlds' ecosystem, says new report (S.Singh) (19 Apr 00)
  
• Lawsuits spark calls for changes in NAFTA (Danielle Knight)
  

Earth Summit: Plus 5 or Minus Five?

• UN Special Session ends without Political Statement (Martin Khor)
  
• UN Assembly hears call for urgent action (Martin Khor)
  
• G77 asks for international actions (Martin Khor)
  
• Bringing TNCs into the UN framework
  
• Time for people to act on governments (Martin Khor)
  
• Salute to grassroots fighters of sustainable development! (Martin Khor)
  
• Effects of globalization on sustainable development after UNCED (Martin Khor)
  
• TNCs and Globalization: Prime sources of worsening ecological crisis
  
• Technology transfer, intellectual property rights and the environment
  
• Some critical environment issues after Rio (TWN)
  

Mining

• Tin mining wreaks havoc on "beautiful" Nigerian city (Abiodun Raufu)
  
• Mining, murder and mayhem: The impact of the mining industry in the South (Danny Kennedy)
  
• Mining boom - a gain for Africa? (Charles Abugre and Thomas Akabzaa)
  
• Resistence grows to Sri Lanka/TNC mining deal (Mallika Wanigasundara)
  
• The globalization of mining and its impact and challenges for women (V.T. Corpuz)
  

Books on environmental issues:

• Earth Summit Briefings
• Toxic Terror
• Damming the Narmada
• Biodiversity: A Third World Perspective
• Return to the Good Earth
• Biopolitics: A Feminist and Ecological Reader on Biotechnology
• Screening Foreign Investments: An Environmental Guide for Policy Makers and NGOs
• Greenwash
• Biodiversity: Social and Ecological Perspectives
• Rainforest Destruction: Causes, Effects and False Solutions
• Forestry Crisis and Forestry Myths
• The Battle for Sarawak's Forest
• Tropical forestry action plan: what progress?
• The Endangered Rainforests and the Fight for Survival
• The Struggle for Land and the Fate of the Forests
• Slave and Enclave
• In defence of local community knowledge and biodiversity
• TRIPS and Biodiversity: The Threat and Responses - A Third World view
• Biotechnology and the Environment