NEW EU CHEMICALS POLICY ‘REACH’: PROFITS PUT BEFORE PUBLIC HEALTH

On November 17th the European parliament will vote the new REACH system for the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals, which should regulate the production and use of chemicals on a European level.The question...

G8 Gleneagles climate change agreement: neoliberalism blocks sustainable development

The G8 leaders have signed a climate change agreement without measurable targets and timetables for reducing heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions. Their agreement also includes a plan of action for putting the poorer countries...

Kyoto protocol: too little to stop global warming

Hard to say whether the recent Buenos Aires conference on climate change is a failure or a step ahead. On one side there's the good news that thanks to the ratification of the protocol by Russia the agreement will finally become...

new Environment Commission pre-document