The NHS is buying drugs from pharmaceutical companies in India whose dirty production methods are fuelling the rise of superbugs, write Andrew Wasley & Madlen Davies. There are no checks or regulations in place to stop this happening - even though the rapid growth in antibiotic resistant bacteria in India is spreading across the world, including to the UK and NHS hospitals.
… Dirty production of NHS antibiotics in India helping to create superbugs Andrew … 26th October 2016 News Health Corporations UK India 3-cut.jpg The NHS is buying drugs from pharmaceutical companies in India whose dirty production methods are …
The tiny Pacific state of the Marshall Islands has given oral evidence to the International Court of Justice against all nuclear armed states for failing to pursue disarmament. The UK, India and Pakistan were present to deny the charges, but the US, Russia, France, China, Israel and North Korea have denied the ICJ's compulsory jurisdiction.
… Nuclear WMD Un Marshall Islands Pacific UK India Pakistan bikini-cut.jpg The tiny Pacific … for failing to pursue disarmament. The UK, India and Pakistan were present to deny the … respondent nations - the United Kingdom, India and Pakistan. Tony de Brum, Co-Agent of …
Despite the endless rhetoric about a 'nuclear renaissance', there are fewer power reactors today than there were a decade ago, writes Jim Green. The one country with a really big nuclear build program is China, but no one expects it to meet its targets. And with over 200 reactor shut-downs due by 2040, the industry will have to run very hard indeed just to stay put.
… prepared for the COP21 conference: China, India, Japan, Argentina, Turkey, Jordan and … of shut-downs increases. Growth elsewhere? India is the only other country where there is … in the nearish-future. But nuclear growth in India has been modest - six reactor start-ups …
A bill to quadruple the UK's aid funding to a profit-driven 'private equity' company owned by the government comes before MPs today for its third reading, writes Global Justice Now. Trouble is the investments do little or nothing for the poor, and instead entrench corporate power in health, education and infrastructure. Parliament should seize this last chance to reject the new law.
… Activism Development UK Law Politics beggar-india-cut.jpg A bill to quadruple the UK's aid … invest in, for example: Private healthcare in India Private education across Africa An … and wealthier developing countries such as India (which remains under the new strategy) …
Austria's pledge to strive for the elimination of nuclear WMD kindled fresh energy and hope at this month's Vienna Conference on Nuclear Weapons, writes Rebecca Johnson. Now we must maintain the momentum towards global nuclear disarmament at the May 2015 meeting of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
… 2014 Activism Nuclear WMD Austria USA UK India Pakistan Japan War tsar-bomba-cut.jpg … States and Britain - attended, as well as India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed nations … ranks of civil society experts. Pakistan and India - prepared to talk of nuclear peace …
As flagship nuclear projects run into long delays and huge cost overruns, solar and wind power are falling in price, writes David Elliott. Renewables already supply twice as much power as nuclear. It's just too bad the nuclear-fixated UK government hasn't noticed.
… to the future, there are scenarios for India, Japan, South Korea, the USA and the EU, … renewables are not as developed as in China, India has been pushing them quite hard, with … at 2.6 GW grid-linked so far, but Bridge to India is pushing for 100GW by 2020. Funding …
The global rebirth of nuclear power was meant to be well under way by now, writes Jim Green. But in fact, nuclear's share of world power generation is on a steady long term decline, and new reactors are getting ever harder to build, and finance. The only real growth area is decommissioning, but that too has a problem: where's the money to pay for it?
… nuclear renaissance - Russia, South Korea and India - growth is likely to be modest and … attack on Korea Hydro's computer network. India has 21 operating reactors, six under construction and 22 planned. But India's nuclear program is in a "deep freeze" …
The damage caused by fracking to people, communities and the wider environment will be put under the legal spotlight in public hearings in the US and the UK, write Damien Short & Tom Kerns. While the 'ruling' that emerges will be non-binding, it will provide an authoritative, expert dossier of fact and argument for real legal actions to follow.
… hazards such as occurred in Bhopal, India, where 15,000 local residents were … settlement with the Government of India. They also served as a source of …
The Scottish diet is famous for being the worst in Europe, write Pete Ritchie and Miriam Ross. Yet the country has rich land and sea resources, and exports large quantities of high quality food. By treating food as a common good instead of leaving the market to provide, Scots can start to transform their food future.
… and Friday in Glasgow, farmers from Scotland, India, Malawi and Trinidad and Tobago and … land - around the same area per person as in India, which produces almost all of its own …
Consumers around the world want their electricity to come from renewable sources, writes Paul Brown. Yet governments from the UK to Australia are defying the popular will as they push for fossil fuels and nuclear power. The good news? Renewable energy is surging ahead regardless.
… 2014 News Energy Renewables UK Australia India Germany Solar Wind westmill-cut.jpg … support - although solar power is popular. In India, where power cuts are a major headache … businesses, a recent poll showed that 50% of Indians want more renewable energy, and …
The Royal Society has form on GM crops, writes the Soil Association - consistently Gung-ho! for the last 20 years, while refusing to engage with critics of the technology or even accept the existence of any problems. Its latest effort represents more of the same, while exposing this once August body to ridicule for its egregious scientific howlers.
… the unfolding tragedy of GM Bt cotton use in India, where there have been widespread crop … widespread moves away from GM cotton seeds in India, often with the support of State …
Rich industrialised countries have a responsibility to help others stick to their green responsibilities, argues Helena Norberg-Hodge, not collude in helping shirk them
… Protocol because it does not bind China and India, and the Chinese and Indian governments say they will not tolerate … an ‘Asia-Pacific’ partnership with China, India, Japan, Korea and Canada as a rival to …
It's barely mentioned in the election campaign or reported in the media. But a powerful faction of Tory ministers, ex-ministers and backbench MPs are bent on using Brexit to ignite a massive bonfire of 'spirit-crushing' laws on wildlife protection, air and water pollution, pesticides, renewable energy and public health, writes Brendan Montague. At risk are not just EU directives and regulations but even the UK's own Climate Change Act. May's Brexit may not just be hard, but very, very dirty.
… if we wanted, accept emissions standards from India, America, and Europe. There'd be no … that. We could say, if it's good enough in India, it's good enough for here. There's … if we wanted, accept emissions standards from India, America, and Europe. There'd be no …
Even the most conservative estimates of sea level rise caused by climate change will cause a redrawing of the physical map of the planet. Here Cleo Paskal, Associate Fellow at Chatham House, looks at the potential consequences.
… in to the territorial waters of neighbours India and Burma (Myanmar). Or even into … Many coastal nations, including China, India, and the U.S., are in the same position. … island states of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Ocean sink completely, inhabitants may …
As part of a global week of action campaigners from Divest London have gathered to ‘Raise the Heat' on the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, writes Hal Rhoades - protesting its plan to invest in a ‘carbon bomb' coal project that endangers global climate and threatens to finish off the Great Barrier Reef.
… ensure it can export its coal to markets in India and China. To do this it hopes to … Stanley and Goldman Sachs. The State Bank of India is understood to be on the verge of …
In the industrial era, economic growth has become equated with human progress, writes Jules Pretty, with a fundamental assumption that material growth and consumption inevitably leads to improvements in our well-being. Now think again ...
… importing fossil fuels - Kenya, Senegal and India spend 45-50% of their earnings from … introduced feed-in-tariffs for renewables, India is pressing ahead with huge solar energy …
Theresa May has suggested that the UK can pay for other countries to make carbon cuts on our behalf - but these crude, colonial equations are not enough.
… every corner of the world. Entire villages in India are being abandoned , leaving only the …
Campaign groups from Indonesia, Kenya and Peru have called on planners in the UK to turn down opencast coal mines in Co Durham and Derbyshire, write Anne Harris & Hal Rhoades. Not only do the mines damage local health and environment, say the activists. They also threaten global climate stability - and all countries must play their part in ending the world's coal addiction.
… including Indonesia, the Philippines, India, Vietnam, South Africa, Kenya, Peru and …
Brexit gives the UK the chance to reform the system of agricultural subsidies that rewards wealthy landowners at the expense of taxpayers, the global south, the environment, and small scale sustainable farmers, writes Alex Scrivener. But strong, effective campaigning will be needed to bring about the changes we desperately need.
… subsidy programmes of their own. For example, India has been castigated for its food …
Britain's 20th century architecture is in danger of obliteration, writes Sebastian Messer, with a 'new brutalism' that holds that socially deprived council estates are fit only for demolition. But these buildings are an important part of our cultural heritage, and more than that, they provide affordable housing to millions of people.
… - and was exported as far as Chandigarh, India . In the UK, brutalist buildings formed …
News that one of the world's biggest nuclear power constructors, Westinghouse, has filed for bankruptcy in with debts of over $10 billion has put the entire sector on notice and issued a dire warning to nuclear investors everywhere, writes Jim Green. Among the likely casualties: the UK's Moorside nuclear complex in Cumbria.
… Plans for new Westinghouse reactors in India, the UK and China are in jeopardy and …
We get an entertaining selection of press releases each week at the Ecologist. Recently, however, amid claims for the greenest 4x4s ever, vegan-friendly breastmilk ice cream and strip-mining with a heart, one stood out.
… tobacco products. • Betel quid A product of India, Africa and Asia, it consists of a dried …