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Businesses Impact Nature on Which They Depend — IPBES Report Finds
- Inter Press Service
PRETORIA, December 4 (IPS) - Nature is a double-edged sword for global business. A groundbreaking report will reveal how businesses profit from exploiting natural resources while simultaneously impacting biodiversity.
‘Low- and Middle-Income Countries Need Better Data, Not Just Better Tech’
- Inter Press Service
CLERMONT-FERRAND, France, December 4 (IPS) - During the Global Development Conference 2025, development experts and researchers kept warning that low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) were being pushed into a wave of digital transformation without the basic statistical systems, institutional capacity, and local context needed to ensure that AI and digital tools truly benefited the poor.
Fresh Lens For Nuanced Multifaceted Climate Solutions Needed
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, December 4 (IPS) - “I see more philanthropic support aligning with systems thinking, linking climate stability, biodiversity protection, Indigenous leadership, and community resilience,” says Michael Northrop, Program Director at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Why the UN Environment Assembly is Essential to a Safer, More Resilient Planet
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, December 3 (IPS) - As geopolitical challenges and tensions escalate globally, one thing is clear: fragmented politics will not fix a fractured planet. This is why the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) – the world’s highest decision-making body on the environment – is so critical to address our shared and emerging environmental threats.
Resumption of Nuclear-Explosive Testing: A Dangerous Path
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, USA, December 2 (IPS) - In a Truth Social post that reverberated around the world, on October 29 President Donald Trump wrote: “Because of other countries’ testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.”
International Volunteer Year (IVY) 2026: An Opportunity to Re-imagine UNV?
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, December 2 (IPS) - This coming International Volunteer Day (IVD), celebrated every year on 5 December, is special because the United Nations will launch the International Volunteer Year 2026 or IVY 2026.
From Village Vision to Vital Innovation: How One Student is Revolutionizing Healthcare in Malawi
- Inter Press Service
CHAMHANYA GONDWE, Malawi, December 2 (IPS) - In the quiet hills of Chamhanya Gondwe village in Malawi’s Mzimba district, a young boy once watched his community struggle with limited access to healthcare.
World News in Brief: Global economy ‘on the brink’, ending slavery, Latin America jobs update
- UN News
Global economic growth will slow to 2.6 per cent in 2025, down from 2.9 per cent in 2024, as global trade and investment face growing pressure from financial volatility and geopolitical uncertainty, according to a new report by the UN Trade and Development body (UNCTAD).
Millions of jobs at risk in Asia-Pacific as AI adoption surges in wealthy nations
- UN News
Millions of jobs across Asia could be at risk as the AI industry booms at the expense of poorer nations still struggling to provide basic digital access and literacy, UN economists said on Tuesday.
Yemen’s Worsening Food Security Crisis: Economic Collapse, Continued Insecurity, and Humanitarian Challenges
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, December 1 (IPS) - For the past decade, Yemen has been at the center of a severe and multifaceted humanitarian crisis, marked by widespread violence between various Middle Eastern actors, widespread civilian displacement, economic decline, and the collapse of essential services that serve as lifelines for displaced communities. As the crisis has intensified in recent months, humanitarian agencies face increasing challenges in providing lifesaving care to civilians, who are experiencing record levels of hunger in a country that has become more reliant on remittances as self-sufficiency continues to slip further out of reach.
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