This is a page of links to issues related to the wide-ranging effects (loosely, 'globalization') of science, technology, trade, economics .

The Earth summit 1992 saw the emergence of several documents

• Agenda 21 — a comprehensive programme of action for global action in all areas of sustainable development
  
• The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development — a series of principles defining the rights and responsibilities of States
  
• The Statement of Forest Principles — a set of principles to underlie the sustainable management of forests worldwide
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity
  

SciDevNet dossier on Climate change Guardian Special Report: Climate change Heatwave underlines climate-model failures, by Declan Butler, Nature 424, 21 Aug 2003

Not just warmer: it's the hottest for 2,000 years, by Ian Sample, The Guardian 1 Sep 2003 Hot summer sparks global food crisis, by Geoffrey Lean, The Independent, 31 August 2003

Biodiversity

Agriculture

Special Report: Climate change Guardian, UK

Hot summer sparks global food crisis, by Geoffrey Lean, The Independent, 31 August 2003

Where agriculture and IPR's meet: Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's)

SciDevNet dossier on GMO's

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

Other aspects of Globalization

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