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UN report finds nature conservation funding must triple globally this decade
- UN News
G20 leading industrialized nations must embrace their role as influential leaders against climate change, by aligning development and economic recovery with international nature and climate goals, according to a new UN report, published on Thursday.
A Special Adviser to Probe Racism and Discrimination at UN
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 27 (IPS) - “Racism and discrimination have no place in our world -- least of all at the United Nations”, warns UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who will soon appoint a Special Adviser to investigate the growing discrimination based on racial, national or ethnic origins in the world body.
Road to COP27: Why Africa cannot be Complacent on Energy, Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 27 (IPS) - A year ago, we welcomed 2021 with a sense of cautious optimism when the newly developed vaccines promised a shift in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus turned towards building back better and doing things differently as many countries started to rethink and rebuild their shattered economies.
Heatwave and Drought Hit South America's Crops and Economy
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Jan 26 (IPS) - Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, the three major agricultural producers in South America, are currently experiencing a prolonged period of drought and low water levels in their main rivers. This is severely impacting harvests, as well as river transport of important summer crops, with maize and soybeans the main casualties.
Future of Coral Reefs in the Time of Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
NEW JERSEY, Jan 26 (IPS) - Coral reefs are one of the world’s most biologically diverse and productive ecosystems. They provide abundant ecological goods and services and are central to the socio-economic and cultural welfare of coastal and island communities – throughout tropical and subtropical ocean countries – by contributing billions of dollars to the local and global economies, when combined with tourism and recreation.
Youth Have the Spirit to Change Trajectory of Leprosy, says Yohei Sasakawa
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Kenya, Jan 25 (IPS) - Yohei Sasakawa said the youth have the power to change the world, and their participation in removing the stigma and myths about leprosy is crucial to the campaign to end the disease.
Our Global Food Systems Are Rife with Injustice: Here's How We Can Change This
- Inter Press Service
Jan 25 (IPS) - The pandemic – alongside growing threats from climate change, widespread malnutrition, economic instability and geopolitical conflict – has heightened problems with the ways we produce, distribute and consume food. And it’s made clear the urgent need to make global food systems more just.
Rising caseloads, disrupted recovery, higher inflation: New IMF forecast
- UN News
The global economy is entering 2022 in a weaker position than previously expected, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced on Tuesday, in an update to their World Economic Outlook (WEO).
The Rise of Religious Extremism & Anti-Muslim Politics in Sri Lanka
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Jan 25 (IPS) - On 28 October, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed the militant Buddhist monk Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara to head a presidential task force on legal reforms, shocking many in Sri Lanka and beyond. Gnanasara is the public face of the country’s leading anti-Muslim campaign group, Bodu Bala Sena (Army of Buddhist Power, or BBS). He is widely accused of inciting inter-communal violence, including two deadly anti-Muslim pogroms in June 2014 and March 2018.
Climate Inaction, Injustice Worsened by Finance Fiasco
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 25 (IPS) - Many factors frustrate the international cooperation needed to address the looming global warming catastrophe. As most rich nations have largely abdicated responsibility, developing countries need to think and act innovatively and cooperatively to better advance the South.
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