Global Issues
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COP26 - Adapting to the Climate Crisis
- Inter Press Service
OTTAWA, Canada, Nov 09 (IPS) - Look up any map showing today’s global humanitarian crises and you’ll find it awash in red alerts more than ever before. Climate emergencies are fast emerging in new areas that have never previously witnessed them, and they are accelerating humanity’s march towards the precipice in regions long battered by conflict, hunger and displacement.
West of The Nile and Around The Sudd
- Inter Press Service
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, Nov 09 (IPS) - Tensions and hostilities persisted until early 2019, when the regime of Omar al-Bashir - to a large extent symbolized by oppressing minority groups in the Darfurs, Blue Nile state and South Kordofan - finally ended. Meanwhile, many inhabitants of the Nuba Mountains and other parts of South Kordofan, had escaped to South Sudan, which had become independent in 2011.
Indigenous Peoples Want to Move Towards Clean Energy Sovereignty
- Inter Press Service
GLASGOW, Nov 09 (IPS) - In the community of Bella Bella on Turtle Island in the western Canadian province of British Columbia, the indigenous Heiltsuk people capture heat from the air through devices in 40 percent of their homes, in a plan aimed at sustainable energy sovereignty.
Magical Thinking on Fertilizer and Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
CAMBRIDGE, Nov 09 (IPS) - As world leaders wrap up the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow, new scientific research shows that there is still a great deal of magical thinking about the contribution of fertilizer to global warming.
COP26: Climate Justice Begins with the Human Right to Water
- Inter Press Service
GLASGOW, Scotland, Nov 09 (IPS) - As the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) is swiftly moving to its conclusion on Friday, climate justice could not be more urgent or timely.
Carbon Tax Over-Rated
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 09 (IPS) - Addressing global warming requires cutting carbon emissions by almost half by 2030! For the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, emissions must fall by 45% below 2010 levels by 2030 to limit warming to 1.5°C, instead of the 2.7°C now expected.
UNs Indispensable Partners Barred from Entering Secretariat Building
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 08 (IPS) - The United Nations has come under heavy fire for continuing a 20-month-long ban on non-governmental organizations (NGOs)– even though the Secretariat is expected to return to near-normal by September 15 after a pandemic lockdown going back to March 2020.
Optimizing Sustainable Groundwater Management Calls for a System Thinking Approach
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 08 (IPS) - “The Systems thinking approach could innovatively contribute to a water-secure Southern African Development Community (SADC) region to mitigate the acerbating impacts of climate change”. This view is shared by Engineer James Sauramba, SADC-GMI Executive Director.
A Possible Childcare Solution
- Inter Press Service
PORTLAND, USA, Nov 08 (IPS) - A possible solution to childcare needs is polygamy. Polygamy, the practice of having more than one spouse at the same time, was not against the laws in many countries in the past. For example, polygamy was made illegal in China in 1950, in France at the end of the 20th century, in the United States near end of the 19th century and became a felony in the United Kingdom at the start of the 17th century.
Half World’s Population, Exposed to Floods, Storms, Tsunamis, by 2030
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Nov 08 (IPS) - While negotiators from all over the world have been discussing, since 31 October 2021 in Glasgow, every single word, coma and dot in order to reach a final text that is expected to apparently keep everyone happy but really not everybody satisfied, 50% of world’s population will live in coastal areas, exposed to floods, storms and tsunamis by the year 2030.
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