News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 147
What Would Europe, the US, Do with One Billion Climate Refugees?
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Dec 20 (IPS) - A bit of fiction. Or maybe not. If things keep going the way they are, the result will be that such a massive flux would create instability and tensions, impact the global markets, cause record prices of fossil fuels, food and everything else, and the bankruptcy of big private financial corporations.
COP26 Agreed Rules on Trading Carbon Emissions – But They’re Fatally Flawed
- Inter Press Service
Dec 20 (IPS) - One surprise from COP26 – the latest UN climate change conference in Glasgow – was an agreement between world leaders on a new set of rules for regulating carbon markets. This would allow countries to trade the right to emit greenhouse gases.
Green Gas: Energy as a By-Product of Sugarcane in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
NARANDIBA, Brazil, Dec 20 (IPS) - First came sugar. For four centuries, it was the main sugarcane product in Brazil. But since the 1970s sugarcane has grown and diversified as a source of energy: ethanol, electricity and biogas.
Covid-19 Has Accelerated New Agtech Development and Adoption in Asia-Pacific!
- Inter Press Service
SINGAPORE, Dec 20 (IPS) - While the COVID-19 impact has been predominantly negative, the pandemic appears to have sparked increased interest in developing agricultural technology (agtech) to improve the efficiency of food systems, from input supplies through farming and processing to delivery and retail.
Nature-based Solutions for enhancing coordinated action around climate change, land and biodiversity
- Inter Press Service
London, Dec 17 (IPS) - A key outcome of COP26 climate summit is the enhanced focus on “nature-based solutions” – the plans for people to work closely alongside nature to avert a planetary catastrophe.
High Yield Seeds Could Address Food Shortages and Place Africa on Track to Zero Hunger - Experts
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Kenya, Dec 16 (IPS) - Rahab Munene’s shoe selling business crumbled at the height of COVID-19 in 2020. She traded the enterprise for a mobile grocery along the Thika Superhighway, Kiambu County.
Doubling Adaptation Finance can be an Opportunity for the World's Poorest
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK / MELBOURNE, Dec 16 (IPS) - Amid several disappointments of the 2021 UN climate conference in Glasgow, one sign of hope was the agreement on financing for adaptation to climate change. Developed countries agreed to double adaptation finance for poorer nations by 2025, from 2019 levels.
Energy Inequality in Latin America Exacerbated by Pandemic, High Prices
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Dec 15 (IPS) - The effects of the covid-19 pandemic and high energy prices have had an impact on the consumption of polluting fuels in Latin America and the Caribbean, exacerbating energy poverty in the region.
Youth at Forefront of Climate Change Action Will Make Biggest Impact
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Kenya, Dec 15 (IPS) - On Gladys Habu’s birthday, she filmed a message to world leaders while standing waist-deep in the sea next to a dead tree stump – the only remnant of Kale Island now submerged underwater due to climate-change-induced sea-level rise.
Beyond Expo: Embedding the SDGs in the DNA of Future Technology and Innovation
- Inter Press Service
BEIJING, Dec 14 (IPS) - The COVID-19 pandemic has moved us farther away from the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Data shows that the pandemic has pushed a further 124 million people into extreme poverty. Global poverty is now expected to be at 7% by 2030 – only marginally below the level in 2015.
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