Global Issues News Headlines for “Environmental Issues”

Bridging Knowledge Systems: How Pacific Communities Are Reclaiming Climate Solutions Through Nature

2026-04-17T05:40:43-07:00

NAIDIRI, FIJI, April 17 (IPS) - Climate change is no longer a distant threat. Across the Pacific, it is a daily reality reshaping coastlines, livelihoods, and the delicate balance between people and the environment. But in a region long defined by resilience, solutions are not being invented from scratch. They are being remembered, strengthened, and scaled.

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Shockwaves of Middle East war reach Caribbean as food prices soar

2026-04-17T05:00:00-07:00

Six weeks since war erupted in the Middle East, the shockwaves have spread to the Caribbean region, already pushed to the brink, amid fears of a looming El Niño-linked climate disaster.

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The Cape Water Performance-Based Bond: A New Alliance for Cape Town’s Water Future

2026-04-16T14:47:14-07:00

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, April 16 (IPS) - In 2018, Cape Town came perilously close to becoming the first major city in the world to run out of water. Known as “Day Zero”, it was more than just a crisis, it marked a pivotal moment. It made clear that water insecurity is not a distant threat, but an immediate reality.

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Explainer: How the GEF Funds Global Environmental Action

2026-04-16T08:22:02-07:00

SRINAGAR, India, April 16 (IPS) - The Global Environment Facility, widely known as the GEF, plays a central role in financing environmental protection across the world. It supports developing countries in tackling climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, pollution, and threats to ecosystems.

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Shipping Industry Seeks Certainty as Experts Back Strong Net-Zero Framework

2026-04-16T07:46:12-07:00

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, April 16 (IPS) - As global shipping braces for another round of high-stakes negotiations, a volatile mix of rising fuel costs, geopolitical tensions and deep political divisions is testing the fragile consensus around a proposed Net-Zero Framework (NZF) aimed at decarbonising one of the world’s most polluting industries.

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Civil Society Launch a Campaign Against Extractive Industry Exploitation and Land Grabs

2026-04-14T10:39:49-07:00

NAIROBI, April 14 (IPS) - Over 800 households in Ikolomani Constituency in Kakamega County, Western Kenya, fear eviction to pave the way for a British firm, Shanta Gold Limited, to begin extracting gold valued at Sh683 billion ($5.29 billion) on an estimated 337 acres of residential and agricultural land.

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From Flooded to Future Ready: Why Asia Pacific Cities must Become ‘Sponges’

2026-04-13T08:00:49-07:00

BANGKOK, Thailand, April 13 (IPS) - As the Pacific recovers from a severe cyclone season and Asia braces for the monsoon, flood readiness has become a defining test of sustainable urban development.

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Informal Settlements Grapple With Climate Extremes in Pacific Islands

2026-04-13T06:26:16-07:00

SYDNEY, April 13 (IPS) - A rising cycle of poverty and extreme weather threatens many towns and cities, especially those situated on coastlines, in the Pacific Islands. Urban centres in the Pacific have grown at an unprecedented rate this century, rapidly straining national resources for urban planning. But governments are now making progress on improving people’s lives in the informal settlements that dominate the urban sprawl in some of the region’s largest cities.

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Nations pledge $3.9bn to Global Environment Facility as Race to Meet 2030 Goals Tightens

2026-04-09T19:09:51-07:00

SAINT LUCIA, April 9 (IPS) - With just four years left to meet a series of global environmental targets, governments are committing to shore up one of the world’s main environmental funds, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), with a $3.9 billion pledge.

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“Humanity at the Edge of Its Own Humanity”

2026-04-08T18:14:53-07:00

VICTORIA, Seychelles, April 8 (IPS) - We live in a century of extraordinary achievement.Humanity has split the atom, mapped the genome, and sent astronauts to the Moon, with plans now underway to reach Mars. Our knowledge has expanded, our tools have become more powerful, and our capacity to shape the world around us exceeds anything previous generations could have imagined. We communicate instantaneously across continents, diagnose diseases earlier, monitor climate patterns in real time, and design artificial intelligences that can aid in everything from medicine to climate modelling.

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