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Developing countries and the Perfect Storm - Part II: What Developing Countries Need to Do
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 03 (IPS) - Developing countries are facing a combination of crises that are unprecedented in recent times. Over the last three years they have had to face the COVID-19 crisis, the food crisis, the energy crisis, the climate change crisis, the debt crisis and, on top of all this, a global recession. The crises have overlapped, and each has added to the problems created by the previous ones.
World Environment Day: Earth ‘cannot keep up with our demands’
- UN News
“This planet is our only home”, Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message for World Environment Day, to be marked this Sunday, warning that the Earth’s natural systems “cannot keep up with our demands”.
World Environment Day (II): Five More Planets Earth Urgently Needed
- Inter Press Service
UN System, Too Complex & Fragmented, is in Urgent Need of Reform
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jun 03 (IPS) - Few deny the huge role the United Nation plays in global multilateral system especially in the area of poverty eradication, sustainability and climate change.
As enabler of the Agenda 2030, the UN system has the ability, stemming from its extraordinary convening powers, to bring around the table global leaders and key stakeholders for the most consequential decisions humanity must take.
Zero waste: The Portuguese business turning leftover fish into dog treats
- UN News
There’s no doubt that food loss and waste, has been undermining the sustainability of our food systems. In an effort to counter this, some small businesses around the world are putting the focus on new sustainable waste management practices.
Over Two Decades of Impunity for Environmental and Health Disaster in Peruvian Village
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Jun 03 (IPS) - "We are not asking for money, but for our health, for a dignified life," is the cry of the people of Choropampa, which lawyer Milagros Pérez continually hears 22 years after the environmental disaster that occurred in this town in the department of Cajamarca, in Peru´s northern Andes highlands, on the afternoon of Jun. 2, 2000.
World Environment Day: Burden of Environmental Decline Falls Heavily on Poor and Vulnerable
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jun 02 (IPS) - Barnabas Kamau’s home sits on a wetland in Rumuruti Laikipia County in the Rift Valley region - considered Kenya’s breadbasket. He settled in the area 15 years ago, attracted by the wetlands’ fertile grounds as they provide favourable farming and livestock activities conditions.
Complex Emergencies: In Kenyas Arid North, Locals Face Impact of Climate Change, Hunger and Poverty
- Inter Press Service
MARSABIT, KENYA, Jun 02 (IPS) - Darkuale Parsanti and his wife Mary Rampe are counting their losses: One by one, they have seen their livestock wiped out.
The Richest 1% Pollutes More than the Poorest 50%
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Jun 02 (IPS) - As an introduction to this year’s World Environment Day on 5 June, this report deals with how the excesses of the world’s population, mostly in the wealthiest countries, are causing so much harm to Planet Earth.
Climate Change in South East Asia: Where are we and What are we Bound for?
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jun 02 (IPS) - It is increasingly clear that human health and wellbeing are being threatened everywhere because of global warming and environmental damage. Extreme weather events, sea level rise, increasing scarcity of freshwater, drought and high temperatures, combined with loss of biodiversity and other aspects of ecological degradation such as soil erosion and coral bleaching are all features of anthropogenic self-harm and an increasingly inhospitable planet for human society.
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